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Originally Posted by dead_battery
yes. exactly the values of the last man that nietzsche decried.
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ha ha ha.
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Originally Posted by dead_battery
i'd add experimentation, research, and some sort of accelerating if not progressive momentum with technology.
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but is that for more control/safety/comfort or for its own sake? e.g., would you sacrifice safety and/or comfort for experimentation and research?
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Originally Posted by dead_battery
war and strife and all that shit that is supposed to glorify us is bs. the only people who ever said that were upper class right wing intellectuals who never fought a day in their lives.
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left wing ones to. "for the revolution" and all that.
i don't think war glorifies jack shit, i think that the "glory" is a way to justify getting yourself killed like a skewered pig. sorta like religion ("suck off god today and get the eternal afterlife tomorrow")
but i digress
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Originally Posted by dead_battery
anyway, i dont take my ability to affect the world or the existence of my ideals all that seriously. since its mainly pissing in the wind.
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yeah my question re:values was for you originally but then you started talking about the whole planet (in the long post) and i thought "that's too much for a single person". i get that we are all one with our environment (generally speaking, not just in the ecological sense) and ultimately share its fate, but as dna water packets we also operate at the individual level.
re: last man stuff. i think it's hard to wake up day after day and face all manner of shit just to say "today i wanna bee reeeel seyf". in other words the preservation of life itself for its own sake is sufficient for survival but nothing else. which may cause disorientation and depression and all that shit. a lack of "meaning."
now i'm not saying "invent yourself a new desire so you can have a reason to live" but that shit can't be manufactured. HOWEVER (however)--