“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
- Nietzsche
Discussion
That actually comes a little before the section I posted! 👍Good catch
"A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.
This sign I give unto you: every people speaketh its language of good and evil: this its neighbour understandeth not. Its language hath it devised for itself in laws and customs.
But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.
False is everything in it; with stolen teeth it biteth, the biting one. False are even its bowels.
Confusion of language of good and evil; this sign I give unto you as the sign of the state. Verily, the will to death, indicateth this sign! Verily, it beckoneth unto the preachers of death!"
I really gotta read Thus Spoke Zarathustra again now haha.
I havent started yet. I had started reading BGE and Geneology of Morals before deciding I had to go read other people first to know what was being written about. His philosophy is quite difficult to parse in comparison. I've been slowly (very slowly) working myself through general western philosophy. I'm still around Locke and Berkeley but I want to go back to Descartes and work through again with more thought.
If you want more background on Nietzsche you'll be well served by refreshing yourself on the Ancient Greeks, much of Nietzsche's philosophy is based on Ancient Greek ideas of forming moral codes, a stark contrast from the Christian morality most common in the West which ofc Nietzsche is outwardly against.
Very anti-statist too but you're on Nostr you don't need background on that 😅
Oh, I am aware of his love of the old greek myths. There is a reason he believed himself the last disciple of Dionysus after all. I have a general idea on his philosophy, as with many people, but its the details that truly count.
Ill need to read over a lot of different peoples work.
He was anti-statist and anti-anarchist. I'm sure that is a head scratcher for anyone in those camps 😆
He was against specific popular forms of anarchist thought since a lot of it leans towards socialism and he's definitely against that, but I don't recall him being anti-anarchist in the broader sense.
His stuff is definitely worth reading 👌
