Day 147g: Walking the road; re-forging the Way … (September 23, 2019)
“For this age shall indeed prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength which this higher age will need one day – this age which is to carry heroism into the pursuit of knowledge and wage wars for the sake of nobler thoughts and their greater consequences. And to this elevated end we now need many valorous men & women; warriors of decency who cannot leap into being out of nothing any more than out of the sand and slime of our present civilization; men & women who are bent on attaining that aspect in all things which must be overcome; men & women characterized by kindness and humility and resilience and a contempt for all the banal vanities; men & women possessed of keen and free judgment concerning paupers & rulers alike, offering an equal share of honor in every victory and every fame; men & women who celebrate daily festival of life, who know their own weekdays, who silently endure their own periods of mourning, who are accustomed to command with assurance and are no less ready to follow when wide & necessary; men & women who have the courage to openly challenge the establishment, yes (and thereby who are ever in greater danger), and yet thereby also men & women who are more just and fruitful and consequent – and thereby men & women who are more blissed! For, believe me, the secret of our greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously – to fight bravely – to give recklessly – to serve sacrificially! So go, my good people. Go and build your cities under Vesuvius and send your ships into uncharted seas. Live at war with your leaders (if oppressing) and yourselves (if oppressed). Be robbers of knowledge and conquerors of wisdom and tyrants of caring. For the age has already passed when you can be satisfied to live like shy cowards hiding in the shadows and peering out from under cover. At long last the pursuit of justice and compassion has reached out for its due. They both are ready to rule and own, and you will let them do so!” ~ inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche
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