Freds Maxims

I was reading my Nietzsche today and I came across an great Maxim. Nietszche's Maxims are a great read for both a laugh and enlightenment as part of his hammer ethos, of obliterating our feeble assumptions taken as perceptions of the world. this is form 75 Maxims, its goes like this

"How one tries to improve bad arguments: some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments,as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures". I got the imagery quickly but

it played in my head like in a Nintendo game when I would jump up and move my body in the direction I wanted go trying to prevent Luigi from dropping into a spiky pit.


Taking the passage into account why it hit home at the time is I see this happening daily, you can't argue against someones personality but you can remove the personalty from your life by removing that person. I have to stipulate as quote-able as Nietszche is he, he would've hated being quoted. You do not learn by memorization you learn through ownership, through ownership you understand, hence my Nintendo analogy. I don't know a single person who has not quoted him. "What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"

DO people truly understand what he is saying? Not Completely, in this stamens I see him shouting out to the world admitting the conquering of his pain, he died from syphilis. His last books and papers he could only write 1 sentence a day form the pain and he could barely see. What a gift though! even though he was a in pain he still wrote about the world from his perspective, his minds eye found the world to be in more pain then he was, and he could truly see that our earth was degrading. Because it was growing lazy, everyone is becoming a follower.