The Will to Power

The Will to Power

foreign To is sick those who still have chaos in

their hearts and fire in their bellies those who still have some remnant of the animal and man within them since the

walls of the modern world closing in around them like a zoo all around us we

see the diminishment the leveling and denaturing of man already we are haunted by the ghost of

the coming World in which the Beast and man has been reduced to an insect in

which all of the energy power and potential which our species has stored up for millions of years of evolution

and thousands of years of civilization will have been squandered

everyone has a moral opinion about what must be done yet their morals never

touch upon the root of the problem our problem is not moral degeneracy as many

on the right often characterize it nor is it the cruelty of human nature as

those on the left often suggest those you can see through the jungle of moral

and political opinions know that our greatest danger is that we are developing a societal structure which

restricts diminishes and atrophies life the greatest man of History the greatest

civilizations of man were both cruel and decadent in one way or another our fear

should be that such men in such civilizations may never exist again or

to use the same metaphor as Nietzsche that mankind wants a fertile soil will

become Barren and no longer be able to grow anything great for Nietzsche the foundation of the

universe is war and struggle various conflicting energies which are constantly in flux and flow clashing

against each other and consuming each other yet in this chaotic war of creation there is an order there is the

force or law which we call entropy and Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity

and there are various ordering forces which resisted one of which is biological life on Earth

the vital Essence the Living spirit which is contained within and drives

biological Life as a fundamentally anti-entropic will life seeks to expand

to conquer space to assert its will upon the world and to overcome itself life is

consumption and growth life is the will to power

Greek Religion and Christianity

for Nietzsche Greek religion celebrated the life affirming values of the Carefree conqueror while Christianity

extolled the neurotic life-denying values of the conquered however we are

not concerned with specific religion but with distinguishing life-affirming worldviews and spiritualities which

strengthen us from Life denying ones which poison us I will do this by

contrasting the pre-platonic Greek worldview with the judeo-christian one but at the end of the video we will see

that it's not that simple when contrasting the Greek story of the origin of evil with the Christian one

Nietzsche wrote what distinguishes the Greek notion is the sublime view of

active sin as the characteristically Promethean virtue with that the ethical

basis for pessimistic tragedy has been found the justification of human evil

meaning both human guilt and the human suffering it entails

Prometheus whose name means foreknowledge steals fire from Olympus

to elevate his creation man even knowing that he will be punished for it like

Odin sacrificed his eye for knowledge Prometheus sacrifices himself for the

Arts and Sciences Prometheus justifies sin and higher

Consciousness through his theft of Fire by showing the good which can come from Disobedience and sin though mankind is

punished with Pandora's box and all the suffering which it entails prometheus's theft of fire justifies this suffering

by elevating man above the beasts Prometheus Embraces Life as a tragedy

his punishment having his liver torn out each day by Zeus's Eagle only to regrow

and be torn out again the next is symbolic of the Eternal recurrence of

life not Eternal suffering Prometheus is proof that life returns from destruction

despite the tyranny of time and entropy in contrast Eve's theft is an unwitting

theft Eve lacks foresight and is deceived by the serpent in most

Christian interpretations Eve's theft of the fruit is a disaster which places a

stain upon human nature and all of creation it introduces the unnatural

elements of death and suffering into the world thus the goal of life becomes a

return to the unblemished world before the fall this necessitates a rejection

of this world which is corrupted and fall a rejection of human nature on account

of the evil which we are capable of and finally a rejection of life itself which

is Tainted by death in Will To Power Nietzsche wrote The God on the cross is

a curse on life a signpost to seek Redemption from life

Dionysus cut to Pieces is a promise of life it will be eternally reborn and

return again from destruction the dionysian mystery cult celebrated the

primordial Instinct of Life creation destruction sexuality Dionysus was

closely associated with nature wine Bulls fertility and divine Madness one

of dionysus's epithets is Dionysus elutharios meaning the Liberator because

the Divine ecstasy which possessed his followers freed them from the burden of

self-consciousness Dionysus and his wine bring a re-animalization of man and a return to

Nature freedom from Consciousness and civilization a return to the Primal

Origins of Life at the center of the dionysian Cults was the mystery of

rebirth through death infant Dionysus was Torn to Pieces by the Titans but he

was born again in various ways according to the differing accounts this gives him

his epithet dymator meaning twice born Dionysus represents life's eternal

return from destruction it is this theme of rebirth which connects dionysus's

associations with sexuality nature and death since reproduction is Nature's

solution to death thematically and symbolically Christ is

quite similar to Dionysus but Nietzsche believed that this parallel revealed the fundamental difference in the Pagan and

Christian World Views while Dionysus celebrated the chaotic forces of creation and destruction inherent in

nature Christ points to Salvation in another world Christ also promises life

through death but Christ's life is not The Reincarnation of life in each

generation but the eternal life of the immortal soul in heaven thus Christ

judges both the world and human nature as evil and corrupt because of the existence of suffering death and evil

and Promises salvation from this world in a final victory over death and evil

which will rid the world of suffering and transform the fundamental character of man and the Earth making them good or

in other words nullifying them however while Christianity as a whole has tended

towards the denial of this world it is not quite so simple Nietzsche believed that the origins of

the life-denying values and metaphysics found in most versions of Christianity

began with Plato this might seem odd if you haven't studied early Christian

theology but the early church fathers while rejecting Greek paganism embraced

platonism as the foundation of their Christian worldview since it fit so perfectly therefore According to

Nietzsche Christianity's life-denying worldview also began with the Greeks

further some Scholars argue that the gospels especially John were written

with a literary awareness of euripides play the bakai which was widely popular

in the Greek speaking world at the time the bread wine Flesh and Blood symbolism

of the Last Supper certainly Echoes what we know of the dionysian Cults early

church fathers like Clement were well aware of the similarities between the stories of Isis and Christ and there is

even a Christian Byzantine poem Christus patience made out of fragments from

euripides thus we can see that some interpretations of Christianity appear

more like a continuation of the essence of the dionysian Mysteries rather than a

rejection of the Greek Pagan worldview the important distinction is not

Christian and Pagan but life-affirming and life denying early Arthurian

literature is an example of a life-affirming Christian ethic it celebrates Beauty strength nobility and

heroic virtue and has a mystical view of nature with God being the animating life

force of the world rather than being outside and Beyond nature however once

the priests got a hold of it the ethic of the text began to shift away from a heroic one to a moral one in which the

most heroic characters were made to renounce themselves as evil for their earlier conquests in war and courtly

love life-denying World Views with Priestly moral ethics arise from sick peoples who

are physiologically and spiritually exhausted they shrink from life and

judge it to be corrupted while they are in fact the corrupted ones Priestly

spiritualities seek to make the world moral to make it palatable for their

weak Spirits since Nature has rejected them as failures they reject the world

as immoral the world is in the wrong not I they say in contrast life-affirming

World Views with heroic ethics arise from healthy peoples who believe that

life though fundamentally tragic is also beautiful heroic spiritualities are

founded on the principle of contending with the world and engaging violently and playfully with the Game of Life

which includes both creation and destruction life and death the world is

struggle and strong Healthy Spirits Embrace this struggle it is absolutely

vital that you cultivate a life-affirming worldview and heroic ethic within your heart

[Music] Nietzsche sought to revive the Pagan

Progressivism vs The Natural Order

Spirit to go beyond the political and Beyond the moral by allying oneself with

the impulse in life which reaches towards the Heights in his ideas of the

will to power the Eternal recurrence and the spirit of gravity Nietzsche hits

upon three fundamental metaphysical principles of pre-platonic Hellenic

paganism as heraclitus writes all is flux this is the fundamental Pagan metaphysic

and the basis of Nietzsche's Will To Power the world is most fundamentally

contending energies vying for power the world is an endless cycle of creation

and destruction the lion eating the lamb One Planet consuming another this means

that all things including time are cyclical just as the world was born out

of the subjugation of the primordial forces of chaos these forces will one

day return to destroy the world skull will consume the Sun but after Ragnarok

the world will be reborn again everything including the soul or life

force of a person returns eternally this conception of the universe

completely refutes progressivism because there can be no progress in a cyclical

world the world tends towards chaos disease disorder there is a powerful force in

the world call it entropy or the spirit of gravity which aims to pull all things

down to level everything but there is also a force in nature something within

life which aims at the opposite which aims at the heights at the creation of

something powerful strong and beautiful this impulse is the will to power and it

finds its highest expression in the Greek gods and heroes the fundamental metaphysic of the Pagan

universe is struggle or in other words War but not the industrial Wars of the

20th century heroic War powerful Warrior Kings contending with each other to be

the best such war is an allegory for the Divine trauma of life in which Nature's highest

types are sacrificed Iliad which could be considered to be

the Bible of the Greeks is such an allegory in the tragic worldview man is bound by

Fate human nature and the divine order of the world those who violate the

natural order of the world like Oedipus bring about their own destruction after

the death of his friend Achilles nourished by nectar and Ambrosia which

is the food of the Gods enters into a Divine Berserker rage he Slaughters the

Trojans and is about to sack Troy single-handedly against the will of the

Gods and fate when Apollo intervenes he taunts Achilles saying why are you

chasing me why waste your speed son of pilius you are mortal and I am a

deathless god Achilles ascends to near godhood and almost defies the will of Fate but

ultimately he succumbs to his mortality even god-like Achilles is insignificant

when faced with the Divine powers of the universe however this is not a nihilistic Outlook

within the constraints of Fate human nature and the natural order of the world something can be achieved but this

something is not a fundamental transformation of the world and human nature it is the creation of higher

types of men higher states of being and higher ways of life like Prometheus with

great sacrifice and great suffering man can touch the Divine

monotheism's conflict with the Pagan worldview such as linear time and its

views on human nature stem from the fact that monotheism Finds Its God outside of

nature this however allows us to see that the true conflict is not between

monotheism and paganism but between the natural perspective which all of

humanity seems to have harbored until relatively recently and an anti-natural

perspective many sects of monotheism find their God in nature upholding the

natural order this is especially the case insect of Christianity in which the

Pagan influence is strong however the common judeo-christian perspective is

that God is beyond nature and created the world as perfect and just without

death sickness or evil the world has become corrupted through man's sin the

world is Fallen this is the philosophical basis of all

progressivism that matter and human nature are corrupt and that we must strive for the end of all strife and

inequality in creation that we must strive for the paradise at the end of

linear history in which the lion will lay down with the lamb from this

perspective the natural order of the world is corrupt not sacred and we must

work to progress towards the Kingdom of Heaven whose Advent brings a total

Destruction and even inversion of the natural order and of human nature we can

see that the beliefs of modern leftists arise out of this anti-natural perspective which although secularized

preserves the same fundamental presuppositions Nietzsche sought to revive the Pagan

worldview but he also retains the judeo-christian idea of a goal in

history or Beyond history he thus creates a progressive or goal-oriented

Pagan philosophy in Christianity Nietzsche saw a great

regression and degeneration of mankind and therefore finds his idea of progress

in a reversal of Christian values or a rediscovery of classical Pagan values

yet Nietzsche says that Christianity was useful in disciplining the European

Spirit but how exactly it disciplined us to aim for a goal

which for the Christians was Christ and for Nietzsche is the Ubermensch

Nietzsche wrote Nature uses illusion to obtain her objectives the true goal is

concealed by a deluding image we stretch our hands out towards this image and

nature reaches its goal through our deception Nietzsche's Uber match is the deluding

image which we must Chase to achieve Nature's objectives the true goal a

creature of beauty power and supreme Health a Superman like blazing Achilles

to those who are still undomesticated and unbroken those who still hear The

Whispers of nature the Superman comes like a dream just beyond memory a

fleeting thought a glimpse of something magnificent a feeling of power

to recall this memory and reignite the flame of this ancient dream one need

only look to what the Ancients believed the Spartan would have laughed at the

idea that the domestication and denaturing of man is progress

they believed in the Divinity of Nature and of the body the Divinity of struggle and competition

in their blood and in their souls these men wanted to be powerful beautiful

careless and strong they desired to be like the gods and I am convinced that

when this dream Beyond memory is reignited it will break the totalitarian

grip of the life haters like a wildfire tearing through a dead wood a spirit of

Achilles will erupt again into modernity [Music]

[Music] imagine the sport in hoplites in blazing

The Warrior Aristocracies of Europe

armor running at full speed towards the enemy Spear and shield and hand muscles

gleaming Under the Sun imagine the Vikings massive blonde beasts with waves

breaking over the prows of their dragon ships off to find glory and new lands

imagine the medieval knights in their Shining Armor atop massive battle horses

clad and bright Reds and greens streaking like comets over the green

fields in action box parcel when young parcival sees a knight for the first

time he thinks he sees an angel and indeed these men must have seemed like

Superman demigods among Mortals it sometimes comes as a shock to me when I

realize that such men really did exist and could perhaps again the makings of

such men might be among you or among your sons and grandsons

when it seems that the lower types are winning that all life is being poisoned

and pulled down by the spirit of gravity we can look to the ancient heroic cultures the Greeks the Vikings the

Knights of Arthurian Legend So that we might revive their heroic values and

attitudes in modernity to understand ancient Greek heroic culture we must

look to the Iliad the achaeans are a collection of warrior

Kings and their armies laying Siege to Troy Achilles is one of these Kings he

values loyalty and honor Above All Else Achilles Divine rage is induced by the

death of his friend patroclus after avenging patroclus's death even

knowing that doing so will seal his own Achilles promises patroclus's ghost that

their bones will be buried together this is a man who honored Brotherhood loyalty

and Glory above everything even his own life

it was this kind of Brotherhood which was integral for falling's Warfare and

which allowed these Spartans to Excel on the battlefield to understand the values

of the ancient Greeks we can also look to the story of hippoclides as recounted

To Us by Herodotus hippoclides was an Athenian nobleman who gathered with the

other noble men to compete for the hand of the daughter of King kleisthenes such

a competition which was common in the Greek World already shows us that the

Greeks valued Beauty athleticism and wit when considering marriage Herodotus

writes that hippoclides was proving himself to be the best in the suitors competitions but during a feast he got

drunk and began to dance on his hands to the flutes exposing himself to this

kleistenius said Son of tessander you have just danced away your marriage but

Hippocrates simply replied hippocalities doesn't care or literally

there is no care for hippoclities this incident perfectly illustrates what

Nietzsche meant when he spoke of life in abundance hippoclities excels at the

games and customs of the noblemen but he is not confined by them like some stuffy

Aristocrat he is careless and mocking striving to be the best yet unconcerned

with Petty gain the Norse like the Greeks were a heroic seafaring people

with a thirst for adventure and Glory the Vikings were a cast of warrior

noblemen the Norse didn't send the common people to war but rather the most

noble showing their willingness to sacrifice the best and strongest among

them this again is a sign of life in abundance the Vikings shared a similar

heroic ethic to the Greeks they valued honor Freedom loyalty and Beauty but

what stood out about the Vikings was their carelessness and humor in the face of death

in The volsunga Saga Ragnar is captured by the English king Ayla and thrown into

a snake pit Ragnar says to Ayla the young Pigs Would squeal if they knew the

state of the old boar this is both a humorous remark and a threat about the

Vengeance of his sons who indeed would return to avenge his death and in the

Croco Mall the supposed death song of Ragnar his final words are

death is not to be feared I wish to make an end the DC are welcoming Me Home the

ones Odin has sent me from valhall I shall gladly drink ale with the Gods in

the high seat hopes of Life are past I shall die laughing

and I welcome the Valkyries to summon me home

finally let us look to the chivalric knights as described in Arthurian literature in critian's Lancelot a

mysterious Knight who could be understood as death or as the king of the Celtic underworld captures Guinevere

and is holding her prisoner in the Kingdom of Gore I'm summarizing heavily

here but Lancelot sets out to free her and in order to do so must get into a

card driven by a dwarf this is extremely shameful because the card is used to

parade criminals and degenerates through the streets so Lancelot hesitates just a

moment before getting in when he eventually succeeds in freeing guanovir who is his lover she is very angry with

him and will not talk to him he thinks this is because he got into the cart and

brought shame upon himself but she reveals that she is angry with him because he hesitated to get into the

cart like Achilles we see a man who cares deeply about honor jeopardizing

his life and his Public Image for the sake of personal loyalty and devotion

for the sake of love however in the later cycles of Arthurian literature the

ones written by priests the knights are made to repent for their deeds of Glory

from the earlier Cycles Lancelot is condemned for the very love which was

His Highest virtue the heroic ethic of the night is replaced by a Priestly one

in which the virtues of Chastity self-sacrifice and humility are imposed

on the characters and the memory of their heroic manly virtue is condemned

in modernity the Priestly type and their values have prevailed these types live

off of sick life life Decline and Decay they need us to be sick but Schwab and

the rest of the managerial Elite are not evil lizard people we tell ourselves

this to make ourselves feel better about our subjugation but the elite are the same types as the desk nerds and Twitter

Warriors they are the botched rebelling against life this is in part what

Nietzsche meant when he said we must go beyond good and evil the best way to

refute the Priestly types of our age is not by fighting them on the battleground of morality but by showing the world

that they are sick physically and spiritually and that their so-called morals and all of their aims are a

result of this sickness A desperate grab at Power morality and politics are

simply masks when they come to beat you over the head with their morals and rules simply laugh and say hippoclities

doesn't care make a mockery and a laughing stock of them expose their small Petty souls and

most importantly shame them by example show them life in abundance show them

the unconquerable Carefree Beauty and health of the free spirit at the sight

of this they will tremble in fear as you grow in power and strength they will

gather around you like flies and vultures but pay no heed to them send

them scurrying with the flick of your Mane disregard their pestering and let

the men of the past serve as examples to live by they will fill you with strength

and courage and perhaps in time Superman will walk

the earth again nature critiqued Darwin's theory of

The Secret War in Nature

evolution for over emphasizing survival as the primary driver of evolution ninja

believed that the will to power was the primary Instinct of life and that it was only when weakened or distressed that an

organism falls back on the Instinct of survival in the gay science nature Road in nature

it is not distress which rules but rather abundance squandering even to the

point of absurdity the struggle for survival is only an exception a

temporary restriction of the will to life for Nietzsche the primary aim of

life was not survival but the accumulation of power of strength of

resources the drive to master one's environment and perhaps most importantly

the desire to discharge one's energy and strength into the world it is only when

life is severely weakened sick injured distressed that it falls into a state of

mere survival and loses the drive the ability the strength to overcome itself

through the accumulation of power Nietzsche's Point can be illustrated by looking at captive life zoos provide all

the conditions for comfortable survive level but in them animals become agitated and restless and even die of

depression because they are unable to fill their will to Life by discharging their powers and seeking out new

territories to master only broken and castrated life submits happily to

captivity ninja also critiqued the idea that Evolution always leads to the

Improvement of a species and that nature selects the fittest in other words the

healthiest and strongest specimens of a species he wrote species do not grow

more perfect the weaker dominate the strong again and again the reason being

that they are the great majority and they are also clever the strong are

always fewer than the weak and the resources required for their survival greater the most powerful magnificent

creatures of History are more likely to have gone extinct because although they are strong they can assumption and

expenditure of energy required for their existence is immense the great beasts of

prey of our time face Extinction while rodents insects and microorganisms would

remain on the earth even in the event of a mass extinction such as the one which

is supposed to have killed off the Dinosaurs the simplest and least complex forms of life are the fittest for

survival but Nietzsche argues that the primary Instinct of life is not survival

it is the will to power this correction of Darwin's theory of evolution or at least the way in which

it was commonly viewed in Nietzsche's time makes it hard to speak of nature as the guiding force behind Evolution I

once heard Jordan Peterson say that the best definition of nature is that which selects referring to natural selection

of course but this kind of language makes nature appear as some sort of divine Force akin to God guiding

Evolution Nietzsche instead viewed nature as it is commonly used as a

mostly useless term because it is too General instead he identified two

primary forces within nature a Will To Power and the spirit of gravity the

spirit of gravity is not only entropy death and Decay it is also the tendency

of life to move towards homogenization the survival and proliferation of small

undifferentiated life forms like prokaryotes because of their ability to survive in diverse and conditions but

there is also an Impulse within life which seeks to defy the spirit of gravity a drive towards Mastery

differentiation power the more of the spirit a life form has the more alive it

seems to us hence why plants seem less alive to us than animals and clams and

insects seem less alive to us than humans ninja believed that when

surveying the trends of History instances of Life Breaking Free from the spirit of gravity were rare he wrote

what surprises me today most when surveying the great Destinies of man is

always seen before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or want

to see today selection in favor of the stronger in favor of those who have come

off better the progress of the species the very opposite is quite probably the

case nature rejected the moral view of the world which arose from Christianity

saying that there is no objective good and evil only strong and weak Wills for

Nietzsche Morality In the absolute sense that is opposed to the classical

conception of virtue arose first in weakened life forms as a last resort at

the preservation of life Ninja wrote I assess the power of a will by how much

resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its Advantage the

healthy will the strong will can endure much hardship and pain and still Embrace

Life while the sick weakened will shrinks from Challenge and pain and

seeks to find comfort in another world thus the sick will must invent morality

as an escape from the world and an attempt to gain Mastery over it from a

position of weakness Nietzsche pointed out that that absolute morality allies

itself with the spirit of gravity because it seeks to restrict life and must necessarily find life which is the

amoral Will To Power in the wrong it must necessarily judge life to be evil

since life needs evil that is death suffering consumption

Etc to continue this philosophy can be seen in traditional interpretations of

Genesis in which death suffering and evil are seen as a result of man's sin

and the cause of his expulsion from the paradise which he was born into thus

immorality is established which rejects the world for the better World Of Heaven

or Paradise which is supposed to have existed before Eve's great mistake brought Perfection into God's perfect

creation at the center of this worldview is a will to nothingness a deep-rooted

nihilism a desire to escape the world to Escape life which is imperfect and

immoral in contrast the Prometheus myth describes human life as beginning in a

state of Brokenness in which man lives in the mud like beasts prometheus's gift

of knowledge in the form of fire is not a curse upon man but a blessing with it

man is able to learn the Arts of Agriculture and civilization and thus Elevate himself above the beasts the

worldview implicit in this story Embraces the will to power and to life symbolized by Prometheus the story says

that man's existence is by default filthy and wretched but that we can

Elevate ourselves above this state by taking bold and daring action in the

world this is the classical idea of virtue which in Latin is etymologically

connected to whis meaning life and we're meaning man the classical conception of

virtue is found in the ideas of Vitality and strength in taking bold and manly

action in the world and thereby bringing power and honor to oneself the Greeks

embraced the will to power and vitality and worshiped the image of the strong

beautiful youthful body as the highest expression of life for the Greeks all

that elevated and strengthened man all that brought him closer to the terrible

power of the Gods was good while all that weakened man and made him sick was

evil they recognized that the Instinct of higher life must be preserved

cultivated and strengthened that they had to struggle against the spirit of

gravity which pulls man back towards a filthy animal life of mere existence for

the Greek hero a life of domestic peace was hateful only in the struggle could

His Highest Potential be fulfilled only buying engaging with the world through manly action and striving to make

himself strong beautiful and Powerful could he overcome the spirit of gravity

which Rules by default by striving towards the heights of Olympus and daring to steal fire from the gods

Prometheus Sanctified the suffering inherent in creation Prometheus said yes

to life and welcomed Zeus's eagle with a glad heart and a defiant brow like

Prometheus we too must struggle against the state of mere survival which prevails in modernity against the spirit

of gravity which pulls us down towards a homogenized broken existence we too must

learn to strive for the heights we have within us a life force and

Physical Culture & the Purpose of Civilization

upwards ascending impulse which has been passed down to us by our ancestors and

before them by an unbroken chain of Life over millions of years when this Force

first took form on this planet it was weak the spirit of gravity still ruled

the spirit of homogeneity and entropy but this Force this will struggled out

of the mud out of the ocean creating ever more beautiful powerful and diverse

forms of life despite the downward pull of entropy your body is the vessel for

this life force this will whose aims are beyond our understanding now imagine

what this Force this Force which transformed a worm into a man could achieve if allowed full expression

within you and imagine what types of beings it would create if over

successive generations to come we aided in the intensification of this life

force this is the true meaning and purpose of physical culture the

tradition of physical culture which we have inherited began with the ancient Greeks and was adopted after them by the

Romans for the Greeks the gods were separated from Man by their beauty their

power and their undying youth the gods were images of what life might look like

if freed from the pull of entropy the heroes of the Greeks were those who emulated the Gods in their prowess wit

and athletic ability those who for a brief and Brilliant life resisted the

spirit of gravity and strove towards the beauty and power of the Divine this is

the aesthetic and spiritual meaning of those ancient statues of the beautiful bodies of gods and heroes they are

images of Life triumphant over entropy life elevated above the animal state of

mere survival the Practical purpose of ancient Greek physical culture and was

to educate the bodies of aristocratic Youth and create men who were excellent in all capacities men who were beautiful

in body and spirit Ready for War and Feats of heroism speaking of Greek

physical culture Nietzsche wrote in Athens Cicero expresses his surprise

that the men and youths were by far superior to the women in Beauty but

would work and effort the male sex had demanded of itself for centuries there in the service of Beauty for one must

not be mistaken about the method here merely training one's feelings and

thoughts is worth practically nil first one must convince the body it is

decisive for the lot of a people and of humanity that one begin culture at the

right place not in the soul as was the Fatal Superstition of the priests and

semi-priests the right place is the body demeanor diet physiology and the rest is

a consequence for this reason the Greeks are still the first cultural event of History they knew they did what was

needed the Greeks understood that educating the mind is not enough the education of the

body is most important since all other things proceed from it the body is the

soil from which Mind and Spirit grow a healthy athletic body will lead to

healthy instincts and a life-affirming worldview when Rome fell the classical tradition

of physical culture was discontinued due to Christianity however interest in

classical culture and the aesthetic appreciation of beautiful bodies re-emerged in the Renaissance and

continued into the enlightenment in the form of neoclassicism in the 1800s

bodybuilding re-emerged as a niche sport but it was only recently that physical culture has re-emerged again in full

force this may be in part due to the internet creating a medium for Beautiful Bodies

to be easily displayed and viewed but I believe it is also in part a reaction

against the ugliness and poor health which proliferates in modernity an

unconscious attempt to reclaim the vital Spirit of the ancients a common argument

against bodybuilding is that it is unnatural I once heard a pastor argue

this in a YouTube video but the exact opposite is the case bodybuilding is the

elevation of nature through the cultivation and Perfection of its raw material the bodybuilding is a natural

argument is useful in revealing the two meanings of the word nature which we

talked about in the previous video when some say nature they mean the default

state of life with this definition we could say that it is unnatural for

bodies to look so beautiful since ugliness and sickness are often the default states of existence for man and

for life in fact life itself is a state of exception death is the default thus

the word nature is better used to mean ascendant life the Instinct and vital

Spirit within biological life which drives it to escape the state of

sickness Decay and mere survival which Rules by default under ideal

circumstances the purpose of civilization is the alleviation of this

state of mere survival for the purpose of the enhancement of human ability and

potential for the project of intensifying the life force by strengthening the Instinct of ascended

life most civilizations fall into a suffocating state which restricts life

and causes it to be weakened however in the rare instances when civilization

fulfills its purpose it gives life-breathing room to set higher aims and goals the re-emergence of physical

culture in the west is a fantastic sign if one has a healthy body a life

affirming worldview will inevitably follow participating in physical culture allows

one to submit to the life force and allow its will to be expressed through

them it also instills in one life affirming values and appreciation for

beauty embracing challenge rather than shrinking from it and an understanding of the hierarchies of nature ideology

cannot fix a degenerating culture since the source of this degeneration is

instinctual what we call degeneration is the weakening of the vital life force of

a people due to a civilization which has failed to protect and strengthen it

while the aim of culture is to mitigate the state of mere survival the pressures

of nature must be replaced by self-imposed pressures like physical and

intellectual education or life in Civilization degenerates to a state of

mere existence which is hostile to all forms of beauty and Excellence all

cultural revivals must begin in the body for it is the source of Life having the

right ideology won't matter if our society is filled with sickly Golems to

whom life is constant suffering due to poor health the body Vitality Beauty these are the

first principles of a flourishing culture the life force within you has been

shaped and strengthened by millions of years of struggle you have inherited this history of struggle in your very

blood it is the history of a war between the spirit of life and entropy a war

against Decay against homogeneity against calcification and ugliness a war

against death since life is constantly in a state of

Morality is Biological

struggle against both its environment and other life forms inevitably some

organisms win at the game of life and some lose some conquer and some are

conquered this applies to human civilization as much as to Nature when

speaking both of individuals and more generally of entire peoples and populations this is why nature broke

down morality into the categories of what he called slave and master morality but what might be better called the

morality of conquerors and the morality of the conquered or even more simply the

morality of winners and losers those who are winning the game of Life are rewarded by life and by the laws and

hierarchies of nature they are rewarded by their bodies with hormones for example more testosterone which fill

them with energy and vitality they are rewarded with better resources and a better diet which makes them strong and

healthy they are rewarded with high quality mates and as a result high quality offspring these winners Embrace

Life and nature and act as a creative outlet for the vital life force within them they embrace the will to power and

having so much energy and vitality at their command they are constantly thinking of ways to expend their power

to build to conquer to compete with each other and to be the best often with

little regard for their own lives they Embrace struggle and challenge since

their spirit is strong enough to Bear it and they Delight in danger and War these

are the types of people who have historically made up the ranks of conquering peoples and ruling castes

such as the ancient Greek Norse and Roman aristocracies they valued Beauty

strength competition all the virtues of ascendant life of healthy life of

conquerors and winners as I've talked about in my previous videos the ancient

Greek idea of virtue was Arete the value of being the most excellent in all

capacities the problem is that not everyone can be a winner in The Game of

Life competition which is the Instinct at the core of Life creates hierarchy

and inequality winners necessitate losers when a people is conquered by

another people they need a new identity to preserve their Collective ego or they would lose all faith in themselves and

give into nihilism this is where the morality of the conquered develops as a

survival mechanism in the face of conquest and failure the morality of the

conquer develops as an inversion of the virtues of the people who conquered them and by proxy an inversion of the virtues

of life and nature which allowed the conquerors to become conquerors in the

first place what this means is that the conquer develop a moral system which helps them endure suffering but which

opposes healthy life rather than face the fact that they have failed in the face of the brutal reality of nature

which would cause them to lose faith in themselves completely they espouse their weakness and their suffering as virtues

in so many beautiful words their morals say nature is cruel for letting them be

conquered the conquerors are evil for expressing their Will To Power and therefore life itself does not deserve

to thrive because for life to thrive it must grow and to grow it must consume

and Conquer they imagine a paradisal afterlife or utopian future in which

there is eternal peace all hierarchies are leveled and in which the moral the timid the weak those who nature does not

favor are rewarded this type of morality as a survival mechanism is actually

extremely effective often when a ruling cast has expelled all of their energy

and their Will To Power is exhausted the lower classes of their society or people

who they have conquered will lead a moral Revolution like the French or communist Revel

these revolutions allow the people who are at the bottom of society to invert the society's hierarchy and place

themselves at the top thus they use morality to conquer those who once conquered them by force the problem

stems from the fact that the morality of the conquered is maladaptive while life

denying morality may help a people survive Conquest in the short term and even become conquerors themselves in the

long term when instated on a societal level a life-denying religion or moral

system causes a society to either collapse into violence and bloodshed or

to slowly Decay from this historical analysis we can see that morality is a

mask for our individual and Collective Will To Power it stems from psychology

and biology recently there have been studies showing that political ideology

can be predicted based off of one's personality using the big five ocean

test and with even more accuracy based off of one's disgust sensitivity even

more alarming is a recently published study that says AI can accurately predict political leaning just by

analyzing a person's facial features and structures recently there was an article

published titled the hunter-gatherer fitness model of political ideology the

opening of the article reads the hunter-gatherer fitness model proposes that an individual's political ideology

is largely determined by the relative level of Fitness in a hunter-gatherer

environment one's ability to survive and thrive in a hunter-gatherer Society is a

leading Factor behind their political preferences this link is an adaptation to group survival and a resource scarce

world and is an unconscious motivator in voting decisions and political activism

the article suggests that those who are less fit for survival in a hunter-gatherer environment based their

political ideology on the distribution of resources and the leveling of hierarchies while the more fit favor

hierarchy again we find the ideas of the Greek arrete and the egalitarian Utopia

contrasted the article cites some rather amusing studies such as upper body

strength is strongly associated with support for inequality pure rated attractiveness and self-perceived

attractiveness has a strong correlation with support for inequality and injecting testosterone causes Democrats

to shift toward conservatism all of this is to demonstrate that morality does not stem from truth reason

or metaphysics immorality's primary function is to justify what we are and

to conceal our Will To Power the nerd values intelligence because he is

intelligent and The Jock values strength because he is strong if given the chance

both would probably organize Society to reward their own strengths

people who espouse the idea that being morbidly obese is in fact healthy and

attractive do not arrive at this position through reason and then decide to become obese because it is the moral

thing to do usually they are obese first and then adopt this position as a rationalization which preserves their

ego turns their weakness into a virtue and even helps them gain social status

the hunter-gatherer fitness model article suggests that the stronger more

attractive in other words more evolutionarily fit individuals prefer competition and inequality because they

know that they will perform well in such competitions and place well in Nature's hierarchies however those who are less

fit for survival are hostile towards ideas of competition and inequality since they would not perform well in a

natural landscape thus they favor ideas of egalitarianism or even an inversion

of Nature's hierarchies again the danger is when our society starts to create

hierarchies which restrict life and select for the worst and least competent

people to be in positions of power we now increasingly are living in a society

in which life denying and anti-natural ideologies are dominating our cultural

political and social spheres and creating hierarchies which punish Excellence if this continues our

civilization will collapse but even worse is the thought that a global ethos

of this kind could be established which would stifle and smother the whole of humanity this problem is compounded by

or perhaps even caused by are increasing poor health chemicals in our Plastics in

our food in our water and in our clothing are disrupting our hormones the

cures which big Pharma offers us often harm more than they heal our diets are

poor quality and low in vital Nutri we live sedentary Lifestyles and

Technology disrupts our natural hormonal and sleep cycles this increase in poor

health naturally leads to an increase in unhealthy psychology just as is the case

with people who were conquered when individuals are punished by Nature due to their poor health they tend to turn

against nature and develop anti-natural ideologies since nature is a source of

suffering for them this is where we get ideas about being born into or trapped in the wrong body or ideas about

escaping biology for digital world or machine bodies this problem is even

further worsened by the fact that we live lives removed from nature from animal life and from our own human

nature and instincts in book 2 chapter 2 of discourses on Livy the Italian

Renaissance philosopher Machiavelli argues that Christianity has made the

Italians of his time weak in comparison with the ancient Romans he writes this

can be seen in many of their Customs beginning with the magnificence of their sacrifices as compared to the modesty of

Our Own in which there is some pomp that is more delicate than magnificent but no

bold or ferocious action in their rights neither pomp nor magnificence was

lacking in the ceremonies but there was in addition the act of sacrifice full of

blood and cruelty and the slaughter of a great number of animals a spectacle

which inspired awe and rendered the men who witnessed it equally awesome virtue

must be embodied concrete and grounded in the often brutal and violent reality

of nature not in abstract opinions the obese individual will not be saved by

justifying their obesity with morality nor will they be saved by taking on for example Christian virtues and being a

kind generous and faithful person sin they will be saved by the virtues of diet exercise and discipline and the

drive to be the best and overcome themselves in pursuit of ideals of beauty strength and vitality this is why

Nietzsche said that we must go beyond good and evil our problem is poor health

and an estrangement from nature which leads to life-denying moral systems and hierarchies which smother weaken and

deform life which make man small meek and resentful this will not be reversed

through a moral Revolution we have to inject our society again with vitality

and to find this Vitality within ourselves instead of asking yourself if

an action or belief is in accordance with your morality religion or ideology

ask yourself does this action or this belief promote vitality and Excellence

Within Me does it work with or against the spirit of life within me now more

than ever it is vital that we establish communities and cultural Pockets which promote life Beauty health strength and

provide natural hierarchies for youth to compete in from the fertile soil of such

communities and cultures we might Again Begin to grow great trees and embark on

great cultural projects and most importantly it is vital that we in the west learn to believe in ourselves again

to believe that we deserve to win and that life deserves to win to believe

that nature is good despite being often harsh and unequal and that our human

nature is good despite being sometimes animalistic and violent through us and

in us the spirit of gravity is Raging a war against death and entropy do you

have the strength of will to choose life it is time for man to fix his goal it is

time for man to plant The Germ of His Highest hope still his soil is Rich

enough for it but that soil will one day be poor and exhausted and no lofty tree

will any longer be able to grow from it alas there comes a time when man will no

longer launch the arrow of his longing Beyond man and the string of his bow will have unlearned to whiz I tell you

one must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star I tell you you

still have chaos in you alas there comes a time when man will no longer give

birth to any Star alas there comes the time of the most despicable man who can

no longer despise himself behold I show you the last man

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