Nietzsche: Humans Have a Natural Drive for Cruelty
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I get it; I just enjoy that you’re highly persuasive. It doesn’t matter what you’re presenting- it would lose it’s lustre if it were an easy topic
"Cruel Necessity"
-Oliver Cromwell
Good Stuff Dude.
Guilt and shame are memetic structures which came into being by necessity as a means to correct for the maladapted aspects of human instinct. These ideas persist because the nation that adopt them are more likely to survive and transmit these memes.
This is the theme of the last hunger games book. President Snow definitely believes this while Lucy believes that humans are inherently good.
How do monkeys and champs like to inflicted pain on each other ? I've never seen them acted like that, if your comparing them to humans.
Evident in today's Bangladesh
Evident throughout the whole world! Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan, Myanmar...
does somebody want to explain to me what it means? for some things that he said well ok i get it but i still can not get the whole points of it, or maybe it is just because i am not an english active speaker so i just got loss,anyone can help me ?
His ideas about cruelty, you can meet in Schopenhauer’ s “ The world of the will… “ to kill, to destroy, to be envy, jealous are a real part of you….
and Aristotle’s idea: “ the nature is not divine, but is demon like”, the humans are a part of nature,
take a look at the Russian carnage in Ukraine, and you will understand the phenomenon of “ scapegoat”!
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so basically bangladesh?
Huh ?
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@Q-Susi state-sponsored genocide against hindu and christian minorities, persecution of saints, islamic terrorism. try search "bangladesh riots" and you'll find some more information on this.
Why are you reading books written by people who believe in dogma like this. stop misleading people that they are stuck in an endless cycle of cruetly. You are seriously messing people up and causing more harm than good.
The thing with Nietzsche is that you could disagree with most of his influential ideas, but you can't deny there are parts of his philosophy/writing that will make you scratch your head instinctively
@waleeddandan Yes I do scratch my head because I know people will read his words and believe that their cruel actions are a part of life. That a god created them to do cruel things, and that is OK. Because it is human nature. Well, it's time to evolve or perish. Extraterrestrial watchers have come back, and if they see that we have not progressed away from this MINDSET, we are going to face another extinction.
I do not think Nietzsche was advocating for an endless cycle of cruelty but rather highlighting how power plays out in society and how people often unconsciously accept their circumstances.
I actually agree with Nietzsche’s idea that "humans have a natural drive for cruelty." For example, when management forces employees to work extra hours without proper compensation, it can be seen as cruel, as they prioritize extra profit, often at the expense of workers.
From the employees’ perspective, they may be cruel to themselves by accepting these conditions without seeking growth or improvement. However, external factors, like economic constraints or limited alternatives, can make change feel out of their control. While self-improvement is important, many feel powerless to address these challenges.
In this sense, both management and employees engage in cruelty-management exploits, and employees accept their circumstances, often out of necessity rather than choice.
@stephaniechen33 it may not just be external factors that keep the employees in the position that they're in, it may simply just be the lack of ability to do anything about it. If free will is an illusion and we all just have to play the cards that we're dealt in life, then the employees are stuck in the position they're in and that's just the way it is. Their drive for power doesn't just go away though, it gets internalized and turns against itself creating the "bad conscious". Ultimately the employees end up feeling guilty for having even felt anger towards the employers in the first place. They actually end up pitying the employers for caring about trivial things like money and power. The employees have found something deeper, more spiritual, more eternal in their rejection of the fleeting pleasures of this world, or so they think...
@@nothinghalo8Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me on the internalisation of power dynamics and the "bad conscience" that employees may experience. I truly appreciate your perspective.👍 I wonder, however, if the employees could redefine free will; not as an illusion, but as something limited, then I believe there is still room for agency in how one navigates one's circumstances. Ultimately, understanding the ways in which power structures shape one's lives-despite these limitations-may, hopefully, lead to positive changes.
This is the theme of the last hunger games book. President Snow definitely believes this while Lucy believes that humans are inherently good.