![]() ![]() ![]() “The powerful, as Nietzsche points out expressly, have no need to prove their might either to themselves or to others by oppressing or hurting others if they do hurt others, they do so incidentally in the process of using their power creatively they hurt others 'without thinking of it'. ![]() Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Thus any affirmation of the present moment points far beyond the present - and it is a significant psychological corollary, on which Nietzsche frequently insists, that those who are dissatisfied with themselves usually project their dissatisfaction upon the world.” ![]() And our very existence, our being as we are, required that our parents had to choose each other, not anyone else, and beget us at the precise moment when we were actually begotten and the same consideration applies to their parents, and to all our ancestors, going back indefinitely. That I am here, now, doing this - that depends on an awe-inspiring series of antecedent events, on millions of seemingly accidental moves and decisions, both by myself and many others whose moves and decisions in turn depended on yet other people. “The projection of one's feeling toward oneself upon a cosmic scale may seem to hinge on a metaphysical premise, but it can be defended empirically. ![]()
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