All that is is is.
When you really break it down, all that exists is the material world. Our mental constructs don’t actually exist. The only reason to keep a construct is to perpetuate said construct.
Social rules cease to exist when the minds that follow them cease to exist. But a painting can be enjoyed without rules, as can a piece of music, or a delicious piece of food.
There is no need to share the abstract concepts that led to the creation of these things. The objects are enough.
Responsibility/Omnipotence
There are an infinite number of possibilities. The one you’re experiencing now is a result of what’s most important to you. Since you can change this, and anything else you feel like changing, you have no right to complain.
Every possibility involves a choice. If something isn’t worth the effort, you’ve chosen not to expend the effort. If it is worth it, you’ve chosen to get it. There’s nothing else you “should have” done.
All that is is is. There is no should.
Personal Integrity
You are at your own mercy. Every man lives for himself, and is not entitled to the fruits of others’ talents and labor. Since man can do anything he pleases, he’s also able to be true to himself, always. In which case, this code obliges man to do whatever he pleases. If someone else has a problem with it, he is obliged to do what is necessary for his own pleasure.
Personal Integrity is the pledge to hold yourself above all else. Whether that means subjective values like success, wealth, and likability, or blood-line, society, and conventionalism. There is nothing more precious than self.
Vitality of Man
This came from a dream I once had, and the idea has stuck with me ever since.
The Vitality of Man is his ability to control whatever he pleases, and his obligation not to choose good or evil, nor a purpose to devote himself to exclusively. It’s mankind’s duty to explore and create, to push the envelope and go further than his brethren have in the past.
If you look at the scope of the universe, and how pathetically tiny we are, it becomes more and more evident that this tiny world needs to expand. To become ever greater, in order to have meaning. Even if that means leaving others behind in the dust. We can’t afford to wait for them. We can’t afford to slow down.
So away with stupid ethics, away with sluggish morality. What we can do, we should do, and we can do anything. We are to progress. Forward motion.
It’s personal development on a global, even universal level.
Going forward, and getting there fast is the name of the game. And to continue doing it. There is no end. There is always better.
All that is is what we can see. So let’s create something tangible. Maybe many somethings. Because we can. If there are problems, we can fix them, because we started them. We can’t do this for anyone else, just for ourselves, for our own pleasure. Because it feels great to progress, to learn/create/experience/do new things. Because we have to. Because there’s nothing else and nothing better for us to do.
All we must do is survive, enjoy, and progress. Because we can.
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I must add — have you ever read any Nietzsche?
Nope, not at all. By the sounds of it, I’d like to.
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