Preface: Pre-Nietzsche

This essay was written about a year before I unearthed Nietzsche’s bedrock concepts. You may be asking ‘What is the point in stating this?’ and I would answer: Due to my re-reading of this essay I discovered that the concepts touched here tickle the nose hairs of concepts rooted in Nietzschean ‘Yes-saying’ (which includes ‘No-saying’), the revaluation of values, on the task of ‘imposing an order of rank’, and also on the state of decadence and nihilism. And I believe these (key) concepts, which are included in but not limited to Genealogy of Morals, Twilight of the Idols, and Beyond Good and Evil, all later works by Nietzsche, are the next steps in which one interested in these topics would benefit from taking. Though I feel this essay to be awfully repetitive and a product of amateur and unplanned writing, I believe the points made here are important and deserve attention. My view here on illness is stemmed in the view that it is needed in order for self-reflection to take place, but now I am here to say otherwise, to tell you that anything which includes you disapproving of your self, becoming doubtful of your current values, views, habits, situations, systems, and realizing you are not what you would like to be constitutes that you feel the opposite pull of your current value system and are either going to fail or arise out of idleness and into productivity. Ways for solving this problem of living an unsatisfactory life have, for me, changed since this essay and solutions are not emphasized here as much as the importance of self-reflection, which I know consider to be a step (though still an important one) preceding the solution of living in constant equilibrium inside the system of values in which all of us here are bound to. The sounds that ring through out life should constantly change change, and the hammer that criticizes and produces these sounds must be stricken, as a feather would hit the sand.

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