Thursday, July 28, 2011

Milling on philosophy today for the first time in a while. Nietzsche's aesthetic view of life. Why he probably wouldn't like someone like Courtney, my cowardly sister. She is a mediocrity who succeeds in life through subterfuge.

What I often want is force against force and may the strongest force win. In this case I would nearly always win.

Is this why Nietzsche did not believe in free will? Did he want to see an eternally recurring eventual trampling of weakness?

Maybe not as interesting as the complexity added by the sneakiness of people like my sister.

If life is a fair fight between forces of different strengths, then life is "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots." If strength always wins, life is like the old Nintendo game rampage, a game in which King Kong and Godzilla could destroy property without any opposition. Both become boring.

So that must be why someone like my sister exists. As inherently bland as she is, she adds spice to the game!