Despite the majority of the country not feeling that way about these events.
So, you must ask... who is FORCING this culture on us? Who is inverting values where we venerate criminals and vilify heroes? I'm guessing it's our enemies... I'd say China, but really I think it's almost the entire globe at this point.
What if I told you it's us. Perhaps other countries push for their own interests but this struggle is something inherent within all humans.
An eternal struggle between the strong and the weak.
Nietzsche explained it the best I can think of:
"Nietzsche argued that there were two fundamental types of morality: "master morality" and "slave morality
In master morality, individuals define what is good based on whether it benefits that person and their pursuit of self-defined personal excellence...
Unlike master morality, which is sentiment, slave morality is based on re-sentiment—devaluing that which the master values and the slave does not have. As master morality originates in the strong, slave morality originates in the weak. Because slave morality is a reaction to oppression, it vilifies its oppressors. Slave morality is the inverse of master morality. As such, it is characterized by pessimism and cynicism. Slave morality is created in opposition to what master morality values as "good".
Slave morality does not aim at exerting one's will by strength, but by careful subversion. It does not seek to transcend the masters, but to make them slaves as well. The essence of slave morality is utility: The good is what is most useful for the whole community, not just the strong."
I'm no Nietzsche expert, but something smells off here.
If slave morality is born of "the [idea that the] good is what is most useful for the whole community, not just the strong" - AND - if slave morality is also based "devaluing that which the master values and the slave does not have" - then I think we have a invalid argument.
You can't want what is good for everybody while at the same time devaluing what others cherish.
That only works if your definition of "good" is destruction. If so, then whoever wrote the wikipedia article is just out to confuse. I suspect Nietzsche is way too subtle for such nonsense.
Despite the majority of the country not feeling that way about these events.
So, you must ask... who is FORCING this culture on us? Who is inverting values where we venerate criminals and vilify heroes? I'm guessing it's our enemies... I'd say China, but really I think it's almost the entire globe at this point.
What if I told you it's us. Perhaps other countries push for their own interests but this struggle is something inherent within all humans.
An eternal struggle between the strong and the weak.
Nietzsche explained it the best I can think of:
"Nietzsche argued that there were two fundamental types of morality: "master morality" and "slave morality
In master morality, individuals define what is good based on whether it benefits that person and their pursuit of self-defined personal excellence...
Unlike master morality, which is sentiment, slave morality is based on re-sentiment—devaluing that which the master values and the slave does not have. As master morality originates in the strong, slave morality originates in the weak. Because slave morality is a reaction to oppression, it vilifies its oppressors. Slave morality is the inverse of master morality. As such, it is characterized by pessimism and cynicism. Slave morality is created in opposition to what master morality values as "good".
Slave morality does not aim at exerting one's will by strength, but by careful subversion. It does not seek to transcend the masters, but to make them slaves as well. The essence of slave morality is utility: The good is what is most useful for the whole community, not just the strong."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality
Sound familiar, doesn't it?
I'm no Nietzsche expert, but something smells off here.
If slave morality is born of "the [idea that the] good is what is most useful for the whole community, not just the strong" - AND - if slave morality is also based "devaluing that which the master values and the slave does not have" - then I think we have a invalid argument.
You can't want what is good for everybody while at the same time devaluing what others cherish.
That only works if your definition of "good" is destruction. If so, then whoever wrote the wikipedia article is just out to confuse. I suspect Nietzsche is way too subtle for such nonsense.