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natural custom, every natural institution (state, administration of justice, marriage, tending the sick and poor), every requirement presented by the instinct for life, in short everything valuable in itself, becomes valueless, inimical to value through the parasitism of the priest (or the ‘moral world order’): a sanction is subsequently required: a value-bestowing power is needed which denies the natural quality in these things and only by doing so is able to create value... The priest disvalues, dissanctifies nature: it is only at the price of this that he exists at all.”81 So you philosophers, do you know what I demand of you? “Place yourselves beyond good and evil... This follows from an insight first formulated by me: that there are no moral facts whatsoever.”82
Enough, enough! That’s enough! Must we all believe your insight that “God is dead?”
“Morality is only an interpretation of certain phenomena, more precisely a misinterpretation...”83
Please, let’s stop being so cynical and ironic!
Did you read Parra in the 20th century?
Ah! Parra! Parra! Um! Quite the imaginary man, wasn’t he? And what an anti-poet he became! Very uncanny, indeed, but, being so studious and having lived through almost 80 years of political upheaval in his continent, he distills human nature so avidly in all his works. I hear he also gives the most demanding and pernicious assignments in poetry to his pupils. Did you hear when he asked everyone to:
“compose a sonnet
that begins with the following iambic pentameter line: I would prefer to die ahead of you
and that ends with the following:
I would prefer that you be first to die?”84
(Homework Assignment)
Rather consistent with human nature, isn’t it? I think it still stands. What do you think?
We always want consistency, don’t we? But it depends. I saw in many timelines, consistency dressed as a shark-mouth, grubby interior with an almost perfect body, long
81 Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. Aphorism 26.
82 Ibid. Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols. See Improvers of Mankind.
83 Ibid. Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols.
84 Parra, Nicanor. Obras Completas & Algo. 1935-1972. From Antipoems. Galaxia Barcelona, Gutermberg, 2006.
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