Morality is universal and essentially negative, reactive and hypocritical. It reacts to the position of others, has no creative evaluation of itself, and functions as a device.
Morality is the denial of life and of life instincts. ‘If we were naturally good we wouldn’t need morality, but because we are, we need it’: this is how moralists justify their belief in an original sin and in so doing perpetuate their power. Morality is about guilt: it makes people feel responsible for their own suffering; it is a mechanism of control, a motivating force that is based on a responsive attitude, it disowns action and create impotence through the mechanism of guilt.
It thwarts the expression of life instincts and prevents people from flourishing. Some examples are: castration and ascetism. They are a response to guilt for having forbidden desires, limits to desire and ways to avoid gratifying opportunities, a strict regime that depresses the whole physical system. But actions are the best guide to beliefs, our behaviour shows our moral worth. Guilt and remorse are attempts to feel better about supposedly bad desires and actions, through self-inflicted suffering as some idea of reparation.
Good and evil: the slave mentality of his times, people attribute themselves names according to their power position, and political prominence results in the idea of spiritual superiority. The Church initially pitted the pure against the impure. There was no symbolic significance attached to this: it simply meant clean and related to diet, fasting, and dislike for physical action. On the one hand there was aristocratic chivalry, symbol of potency, on the other there was aristocratic priesthood, symbol of impotence. The good was the noble, the powerful the beautiful, the happy, the dear to the Gods.
The slave’s revolt consists in turning the criterion of goodness upside down, and is the result of resentment: the fiction of not having deserved one’s position in society, ‘the pompous pretence of a silent, awaiting and abdicating attitude, as if the weakness of the weak - i.e. his essence, productivity and entire, inevitable reality - was the product of an arbtritary effect, something chosen, an
Morality is bad for the health. It is not impartial, nor altruistic or free. It is a social construct with a function, that is the control and exploitation of vulnerability.
Ja sellepärast ma armastan Nietzschet.
