So You Want To Live According To Nature?
WANTING TO LIVE ACCORDING TO NATURE
So, you want to live according to nature?
Imagine a being like nature:
Wasteful beyond measure,
Indifferent beyond measure
Without purposes and consideration,
Without mercy and justice,
Fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time;
Imagine indifference itself as a power—–
How could you live according to this indifference?
Living—is that not precisely wanting to be other than nature?
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Is not living—estimating, preferring, being unjust, being limited, wanting to be different?
POST SCRIPT
But this is an ancient, eternal story: what formerly happened with the Stoics still happens today too. as soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in it’s own image; it cannot do otherwise. Philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, to the “creation of the world,” to the causa prima.
Thus ends the lesson.
Beyond Good and Evil
The Preferences of Philosophers vs 9
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 thoughts on “So You Want To Live According To Nature?”
“Is not living—estimating, preferring, being unjust, being limited, wanting to be different?”
We separate ourselves from nature by being conscious of nature. So living, as described above, is only the consciousness of living, which keeps us disconnected. Perhaps that’s why humans struggle with loneliness. We have told nature, “You are over there and we will do what we want with you, your creatures, your resources, as we remain above your confines”. To me this is the true essence of our having lost our way.
Unfortunately, at this point, there is no going back, so we must now ask ourselves how we reconnect with nature even though our consciousness has permanently sealed us off from the other living entities that inhabit our planet. There is no easy answer, but we must try regardless.
Yes, there is no going back. We all live east of Eden, and paradise exists only as an idea. But we do not have to transform this earth, what we call nature into a hell. The deception which we practice by separating ourselves from nature is a willful ignorance. We are extensions of nature and will share in it’s future. What is to be our choice? We can continue to wake up in our beds and believe whatever we want to believe. And the story ends. Or we can find out how deep this rabbet hole goes, –becoming aware of our true relation to nature and what we are doing to it/ourselves.