Single Idea 4491

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 2. Political equality]

Full Idea

Our entire sociology simply does not know any other instinct than that of the herd, i.e. that of the sum of zeroes - where every zero has "equal rights", where it is virtuous to be zero.

Gist of Idea

In modern society virtue is 'equal rights', but only because everyone is zero, so it is a sum of zeroes

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §053)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.33


A Reaction

I see his point, but all social arrangements are a trade-off. It would be quite exciting if warlike aristocrats dragged us into massive conquest, but nuclear weapons seem to have ruined that game.