Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Illustrated)

Leopold, nerdy Leopold, was obsessed with Friedrich Nietzsche.

So he was obsessed with the idea of the bermensch, which is the superman, transcendent individuals possessing extraordinary unusual capabilities.

Basically, they're smarter than everyone else so the laws don't apply to them at all, you know? And moral laws don't apply to them either and they can do whatever the fuck they want.

They're much more tilted towards the imagistic and technically religious side and become symbolic and narrative in some way that's akin to say Nietzsche's thus speaks their athustra.

Nietzsche said, look at all the things. Look at all the situations in your life that give you reward that make you feel fulfilled.

but he was right in that if God is considered dead culturally then the great cathedrals of Europe will become the sepulchres and modus leons to a dead idea and that is largely what has unfortunately happened with both the hollowing out of the congregations in in the UK

Thus Spoke Zarathustra the book um, but the idea was that You know Darwin had had put out his his origin of species and and people were understanding Learning about evolution and starting to understand that and the idea was We had conquered religion man had conquered religion and man now could understand science and we could use science to remake man into the new man

And the question that leads him to his idea of the Ubermensch is to say, okay, we know how a system of morality would be if it was created by a weak person that was trying to avoid suffering all the time.

the values and projects that he has created. More than that, he also thinks that we can spot examples of these remarkable people that have done this by looking at our history.

behold, I teach you the overman. The overman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say the overman shall be the meaning of the earth. I beseech you, my brothers remain faithful to the earth and do not believe those who speak to you have otherworldly hopes. Poison mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they decaying and poison themselves of whom the earth is weary. So let them go. I teach you the overman man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. And do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beast rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man, a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment and man shall be just that for the overman, a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

they fear their higher self because when it speaks, it speaks demandingly,

let the youthful soul look back on life with the question, what have you truly loved up to now? What has drawn your soul aloft? What has mastered it and at the same time blessed it set up these revered objects before you, and perhaps their nature and their sequence will give you a law, the fundamental law of your own true self.

but say my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the praying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting a new beginning, a game, a self-propelled wheel, a first movement, a sacred yes. For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred yes is needed. The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

reading Nietzsche or reading Marcus Raleus is triple the pleasure when you read live in a world that's so antithetical to it