Chapter 11 Chapter 01 "Good and Evil", "Good and Bad" (11)

On the contrary, the spiritually noble person spontaneously creates the basic concept of "good" in advance, that is to say, acquires this concept from himself, and then derives a concept of "bad" from it!This "badness" that springs from the noble "badness" and that "evil" that springs from the cauldron of insatiable hatred—which also seems to be an antonym for the concept of "good" things—"badness" and—"evil" "How different it is!The former is a by-product, an additional ingredient, a supplementary hue, while the latter is the source, the starting point, the original creative activity in the moral conception of the slave.But what is also called "good" here is not the same concept: it is better to ask who is "evil" according to the morality of hatred.The most accurate answer is: the so-called "wicked people" here are precisely the "good people", the noble, the powerful, and the rulers in another kind of morality. They are just changed in color and meaning by the poisonous eyes of hatred. , Changed form.Here we have to deny at least one point: whoever regards that kind of "good man" only as an enemy, then he knows nothing but evil enemies.The same people, who are so strictly bound up in custom, admiration, ceremonies, gratitude, even in mutual surveillance and mutual envy, who, on the other side of their mutual attitude, show so much thoughtfulness, So good at self-restraint, so tender, so loyal, so proud, so friendly; once out into the world, and exposed to all kinds of strange things, they are no better than wild beasts out of their cages, free from all social restraints, and enjoying their freedom, they The state made up for the tension brought about by the long-term imprisonment and isolation formed in the harmonious group life. They returned to the innocence of the beast's conscience and became wild beasts who gloated at other people's misfortunes. A series of abominable atrocities may go away with a swagger and peace of mind, as if it were just a student's prank, and they may also believe that for a long time, poets have something to sing and praise.All these noble races are beasts at heart, and they are nothing less than fair-haired beasts of great beauty, waiting for spoils and victories; from time to time the hidden heart bursts out, and the beast must break loose again, must return to its savage state To go—Roman aristocrats, Arabian aristocracy, Germanic and Japanese aristocrats, Homeric heroes and Scandinavian pirates, they all have the same need.Noble races have left traces of the conception of the "barbarian" wherever they go, and even their highest cultures reveal a sense, even a pride, of such conduct (e.g., Pei In his famous funeral speech, Lycules said to his Athenians: "Our daring opened access to all lands and seas, and erected on all sides eternal monuments, good or bad.") This insane, absurd, abrupt "adventure" of the noble races, this elusiveness, this inability to grasp even their own actions (Pelicles emphasized the Athenian rathumia), their This indifference, and contempt for safety, for the body, for life, for comfort, for all destructiveness, for all victorious lust and cruel lust—all this Conjured up their victims as "barbarians," "enemies of evil," perhaps "Goths" or "Vandals."The deep and relentless distrust which the Germans aroused (and are arousing again) when they first came to power was always the tail end of that indelible dread with which Europe had for many centuries beheld the golden-haired Germanic beast (although there is little conceptual, let alone blood-related, connection between all the ancient Germans and us Germans).I once noticed Hesiot's difficult situation when he was thinking about the sequence of cultural epochs and trying to mark them with gold, silver, and iron.He masterfully manages the paradoxes left over from the glorious, but also so terrible, and so atrocious age of Homer by dividing an age in two and placing them in sequence—Troy and Thebes first. The age of heroes and demi-gods, the age of heroes and demigods, which the nobles still remember, had ancestors of their own; The world seen by the descendants of the mutilated, dragged and trafficked: it is said that this is the age of ore, hard, cold, cruel, without emotion and conscience; all smashed and bloodied.Assuming that what is now taken as "truth" is so, and assuming that the meaning of all culture consists in domesticating "man" from a beast to a tame, cultivated animal, a domestic animal, then we must not hesitate to regard all those opposing and hateful instincts, by which the nobility and its ideals were ultimately humiliated and brought down, as genuine cultural instruments, although it cannot be said in any way that those who possess them also embody culture.Actually, the correctness of the opposite conclusion is not only possible, no!This is now obvious to all!These demeaning and vengeful beings, these descendants of all European and non-European slaves, and especially of all former Aryan inhabitants, embody the concession of humanity!These "cultural tools" are a disgrace to mankind, but they are actually a kind of suspicion, a refutation of "Wenbi"!People have every reason to fear and guard against the blond beast in the hearts of all noble races. If anyone can realize that without fear, he will never be able to escape the jealous eyes of the losers, detractors, sluggish people, poisoned people, will he do it a thousand times choose fear?Isn't this our disaster?What constitutes our aversion to "people" today?There is no doubt that man makes us suffer, and certainly not because we fear him, for he has nothing to fear.Insect "people" have already appeared on the stage, and they are flocking to them. The "tame man," the hopelessly moderate, the unpleasant man has learned to think of himself as the elite, in the sense of history, as "the upper class."Yes, their feelings are not entirely without reason, because they feel that there is still a distance between themselves and the legions of losers, sick, tired, malaise, after which distance, today's Europe is starting to stink , so they feel that they are at least relatively moderate, at least have the ability to live, at least still have the affirmation of life...