[kj] OT: Competition?

B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 21 13:21:39 EDT 2008


Nietzsche is not one to go to for consistency. He did say "Was mich
nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker" = "What does not kill me makes me
stronger," and espoused, at times, a very hard-hearted selfishness that
spat upon socialism and Christianity and two types of herd philosophies
that appealed to the weak who were resentful, envious, losers at life,
and who clung to them to ruin the successful folks' good time.

Yet he also warned people to avoid the kind of character type he seemed
to extol when he said, "Beware those in whom the desire to punish is
strong." His writing doesn't form a cohesive system, and I think he was
against such things.

Also, the Proudhon quote I used isn't "out of context." Proudhon was a
socialist, and was pointing out the irony that when folks compete,
someone wins, the other loses, and then ends the competition. On a mass
scale, like in business, the losers go out of business, and one is left
with monopolies -- according to his ideas. So I wasn't quoting him "out
of context" at all. It was an accurate quote.

-Oliver

The Exorcist wrote:

> Jaaaa, I think we had a few emails discussing it when I first started

> using it.

>




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