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Tuesday 20 December 2005

"You want if possible--and there is no madder 'if possible'--TO ABOLISH SUFFERING!;and we?--it really does seem that WE would rather increase it and make it worse than it has ever been!"Well-being as you understand it--that is no goal,that seems to us an END!
"A state which soon renders man liudicrous and contemptible--which makes it DESIRABLE that he should perish!"The discipline of suffering,of GREAT suffering--do you not know that it is THIS discipline alone which has created every elevation of mankind hitherto? ".[Nietzsche,BGE 225]

The superman type struggles against everything weak and contemptible in order to achieve that pathos [suffering] of distance between the Noble type and the common.

It is a basic tenet that the 'slave' is NECESSARY. As I have said,the important thing is the ever widening pathos of distance.I find only Joy in the struggle; the most misery I hear is the moaning of the 'underprivileged'...

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