Saturday, January 06, 2018

When The True World Merges With The Apparent One

Nietzsche says that we have destroyed the true world (the truth of the world that lies beyond what we see everyday) through our obsession with trying to ground it objectively and empirically.
What we would seem to have left is the world the way it appears to us, the apparent world.

However, again according to Nietzsche, we have made that disappear as we destroyed the true world. Basically, without the ideals and categories of the true world, the world as it appears is simply chaos and incomprehensible.

But we have done something a bit different. (This is a bit like how capitalism has avoided its inevitable fate as prescribed by Marx.) We gave conflated the apparent with the true. 
The true is now the apparent, but we fail to see how what appears is shaped by the ideal and we don't inquire into it at all in any depth.
We have simplified our ideas and as a result the world, both true and apparent. But we are so confident and otherwise occupied we don't see the incongruences between the two.

In the end, When The true world merges with the apparent one, we have no world. We have nothing but chaos and confusion.

The inspiring quote:

"The true world — we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one."
--Nietzsche from How The "True World" Finally Became a Fable, a chapter in Twilight Of The Idols

Your Evil Enemy Makes You Ignoble



"What great reverence for his enemies a noble human being has! ... he can stand no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to hold in contempt and a very great deal to honor! On the other hand imagine the 'enemy' as the human being of resentment conceives of him... 'the evil enemy,' 'the evil one.'"
Friedrich Nietzsche from On the Genealogy of Morality

This is something we should keep in mind while reading, commenting and thinking about things online.

The evil enemy comes out of resentment and simplification. It says as much, if not more, about the person labeling the evil enemy as it does about the enemy. It says the one who is labeling is resentful and full of simplifications and even simple thinking. In short, they are not noble. They make themselves ignoble, or at least questionable, by making an evil enemy.