Chapter 12 Chapter 01 "Good and Evil", "Good and Bad" (12)

At this moment, I do not intend to suppress my exclamation and my last hope.What is it that I can't stand at all?Is it that I alone can't end it?Is it the one that suffocates me and makes me suffer?It's bad air!Bad air!Something that fails is approaching me, that I am forced to sniff the guts of a loser... Besides, what else can one not bear?Misery, poverty, bad weather, chronic illness, hardship, loneliness?Man is basically able to cope with the rest of these difficulties; man is by nature a subterranean, fighting being; man is always reaching out to the light, always experiencing his golden moments of triumph—and then there he is, As if born so indestructible, so eager to meet new, harder, and more distant battles, like a bow, any difficulty can only make it tighter.But every now and then I have been gifted—supposing there really were a Provider of the Higher Beyond—beyond good and evil—enabling me to see, and only see, some perfect, complete, happy, powerful, triumphant What, more or less, can cause fear!Take a look at the man who advocates, at the remaining and disappearing chances of man, in order to be able to maintain confidence in man! ...because the fact is that Europeans are becoming small and average, and because it is tiresome to see that...we are no longer able to see anything that would become greater today.Our concern is that man continues to go downhill, becoming more careful, gentler, more cunning, more comfortable, more banal, more cold, more Chinese, more Christian—and there is no doubt that man always When we become "better" - this is the catastrophe of Europe - when we stop being afraid of man, we also lose our love, respect, expectation for him, lose our pursuit of man, and see him Feeling extra bored with things—what is this but nihilism?We're tired of people...