Musings on Nietzsche and the Modern Condition
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 11:23 pm
Many people take Nietzsche’s tirade against Christianity to mean that we should return to the old Roman ways of requiring submission. There is, however, a hitch. Christianity exists, and has existed for two thousand years, not only despite such cruelty, but also because of it. So it raises the question: How could anyone overcome Christianity without also reviving it?
After pondering this for a while I came to the conclusion that since most people don’t like the mundane jobs that pay out servile wages yet are vital, would it not be appropriate to delegate those to machines.
Also it seems to me that being the übermensche is not an effect of genetics but rather of the conditions in which a child is raised. For example, take the Hitler youth. They were, according to many, brainwashed into the idea that they were übermenschen. They were treated as such, and therefore rose to the occasion. I would not posit that the Nazis were necessarily correct to raise their children in that way, but merely that they did, if even accidentally, raise their children to be what they became. They didn’t have the option of robotic slaves.
Becoming masters, even if we had robotic slaves, would be nearly impossible due to the way that most people were raised and the roles that they have taken due to governmental insistence. We would be left with several people who had no jobs and no idea what to do with their time. Most people have been raised not to get what they want or at least to postpone it. They have been raised for scarcity of labor which might not be an issue for long.
Scarcity of labor has affected humanity in two ways: People generally don’t get what they want when it takes too much work to manufacture, and businesses generally don’t allow people to use the manufacturing process.
Since the manufacturing process is in the hands of the rich, there is a chance that they could allow the lower classes to disappear in order to avoid the poor becoming “entitled”. This is what people in the U.S.A. hear often on Fox News about the poor who receive welfare: They think themselves to be entitled (with more sarcasm than I can muster).
My solution is this: We need the government to allow people to manufacture whatever they want in the interest of the common good (which would include the person manufacturing) until such point as it can be proven that they do not seek the common good. Anyone who seeks only their own good should be required to earn money for use on goods and services that they want and need.
After pondering this for a while I came to the conclusion that since most people don’t like the mundane jobs that pay out servile wages yet are vital, would it not be appropriate to delegate those to machines.
Also it seems to me that being the übermensche is not an effect of genetics but rather of the conditions in which a child is raised. For example, take the Hitler youth. They were, according to many, brainwashed into the idea that they were übermenschen. They were treated as such, and therefore rose to the occasion. I would not posit that the Nazis were necessarily correct to raise their children in that way, but merely that they did, if even accidentally, raise their children to be what they became. They didn’t have the option of robotic slaves.
Becoming masters, even if we had robotic slaves, would be nearly impossible due to the way that most people were raised and the roles that they have taken due to governmental insistence. We would be left with several people who had no jobs and no idea what to do with their time. Most people have been raised not to get what they want or at least to postpone it. They have been raised for scarcity of labor which might not be an issue for long.
Scarcity of labor has affected humanity in two ways: People generally don’t get what they want when it takes too much work to manufacture, and businesses generally don’t allow people to use the manufacturing process.
Since the manufacturing process is in the hands of the rich, there is a chance that they could allow the lower classes to disappear in order to avoid the poor becoming “entitled”. This is what people in the U.S.A. hear often on Fox News about the poor who receive welfare: They think themselves to be entitled (with more sarcasm than I can muster).
My solution is this: We need the government to allow people to manufacture whatever they want in the interest of the common good (which would include the person manufacturing) until such point as it can be proven that they do not seek the common good. Anyone who seeks only their own good should be required to earn money for use on goods and services that they want and need.