Chapter 41 Chapter 02 "Guilty", "Conscience Condemnation" and Others (24)

Clearly, I end this chapter with three questions unanswered.Some readers may ask me, "Are you building an ideal here? Or are you destroying an ideal?" Then I will ask, have you asked yourself many times that every ideal on earth requires sacrifice. What a price to pay?How much truth needs to be discredited and misinterpreted?How many lies are enshrined?How many consciences have been disturbed?How many gods were sacrificed?It is a rule that a relic must be destroyed in order to build a relic—if anyone can prove that the rule fails, please point it out.We moderns have inherited thousands of years of anatomy of conscience and animalistic self-torture.In this we have long training, perhaps artistic talent, or at least dexterity, to which we are accustomed.Man has searched for too long in his natural inclinations with the "evil eye" until at last these natural inclinations are intimately connected with the "condemnation of conscience".It is possible to reverse this effort, but who is strong enough to do it?That requires turning all unnatural inclinations, all those strivings towards the other world, those striving against feeling, against instinct, against nature, against animality, in short, against the hitherto ideal, all the ideal of life. , slandering the ideals of the world, in short, all these need to be linked with a condemnation of conscience.To whom can these expectations and demands be addressed today? ...to the good ones? —that people use them against themselves—and of course the lazy, the retiring, the vain, the fatuous, the weary?What could be more insulting, more dividing so completely, than man's efforts to dignify himself?On the other hand, how kinder and kinder the world would be if only we behaved like everyone else, "lived" like everyone else!In order to achieve the purpose of that reversal of direction, another kind of spirit is needed, which is impossible in our time.Those spirits strengthened by war and victory, those that demand conquest, adventure, peril, even pain; and mountains; a sublime rashness is needed for that purpose, a most confident courage to know, which springs from great health; in a word, it is this greatness that is needed for that purpose health!Is it possible for man to have such health today?

But at some time in the future, in an age stronger than our rotten, self-doubting modernity, the man of great love and contempt, the man who saved the world, the creative spirit, will still His overwhelming strength has nowhere to rest; his loneliness is misunderstood as an escape from reality, but in fact it is because he plunges into reality, immerses himself in reality, and thinks about reality. Seeing the light saves reality from the curse that all ideals have cast upon it, and thus the man of the future has rescued us from all hitherto ideals, from their derivatives, from their Saved from the great hatred, from the will of nothingness, from nihilism.This chime of noon, this great decision to set the will free, to give the earth its purpose, to give hope to man, this anti-Christian, this anti-nihilist, this victory over God and nihilism Man - he will come someday.