The Chandala is an exhausted type
it does not desire anything for itself besides comfort in life and a merciful death.
It fears all that expects something for itself besides comfort - it thus fears all its benefactors, all the forces that love to exert and provide all the comforts of the world, the Creator.
The thing is that the Creator does not create for them - they are merely the flies that come to nibble from the fruit - but they prefer for the fruit to be gone rotten.
So that is what they make - rot. Rot makes rot.
The chandala here are just as well defined as rot as literally falling apart shit-dwellers, but they are even worse, uglier and stinkier here, because they consider themselves entitled to walk the streets and bathe in clean water.
They must bathe in shit, as it is their only cleanliness.
Χρισμένος στα σκατά - Anointed in shit.
For me this is all very radical, when I was young and equality-loving I still had no idea of how wretchedly human beings can process reality. All I offered any of these people was friendship and philosophy. I am only figuring out now that shit is simply all they have to offer, that it is not intentional, like friendship and philosophy is really all I have to offer here even when I am trying to curse them. All this will be delicious nectar for them. So be it.
It is better than trying to level with them to clean up their busy little minds a bit to see some beauty - that is like paying a disease in gold to come up with its own antidote.
Sigh - here we go.
So there are 5 castes.
The chandala is below 4 the castes
one only interacts with it to dispose of things.
Who belongs to the warrior caste, what is the standard here?
The reason I no longer have philosophical discussions with Wendy (prior to my resolution to limit myself to Dutch, which I’ve obviously broken–though I still want to continue that experiment) is that she’s a woman:
Note that, when immediately after writing that post, I for the first time in quite a while talked philosophy to my girlfriend, I made her cry for the first time in a long while.
One can be a woman and belong to the first caste, however. Is it then perhaps Wendy’s (kind of) Christianity that makes her a chandala from a Nietzschean point of view? But Nietzsche exclaimed:
“[A]s if a woman without piety would, for a profound and godless man, not be something perfectly contrarious or laughable”! (BGE 239.)
Still, I think it is her kind of Christianity, but not the piety in it! As Nietzsche also said:
“One shall be harder against Protestants than against Catholics, harder against liberal Protestants than against firmly believing ones. The criminality in being a Christian increases in the measure that one approaches science. The criminal of criminals is consequently the philosopher.” (The Antichrist, “Law against Christianity”.)
And:
“Definition of Protestantism: the hemiplegia [half-sided paralysis] of Christianity–and of reason…” (AC 10.)
Reason (science, philosophy) paralyzes Christianity and Christianity paralyzes reason. This is why “[t]he priest is our chandala”:
“Vicious is every kind of antinature. The most vicious kind of human being is the priest: he teaches antinature. Against the priest one does not have arguments, one has the house of correction.” (“Law against Christianity”.)
“The antinatural is natural to the mind of humanity” (Lampert, Nietzsche’s Teaching, page 228): this means that “the basic will of the mind”, which is “divinized into the most artful of beings, divine womanliness [i.e., Ariadne]”, is a will not to know nature; whereas “the contrary will of the mind”, which is “divinized into a philosopher god, divine manliness” (op.cit., page 234), is a natural will against that natural will against nature. Wendy is an abomination inasmuch as she represents the hemiplegia of these two natures, male and female human nature.
“These two classes of men are always upon earth, & they should be enemies: whoever tries to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence.
Religion is an endeavour to reconcile the two.” (Blake, MHH.)
Blake can simply say “religion” because Christianity (Catholicism) itself is already a liberalisation, a perversion of the completely natural, completely irrational: tribal animism. For those who have eyes to read or ears to hear:
“The history of our species shows that enormous danger has enhanced two aspects of humanity: mind [Geist] and will. Mind, humanity’s ‘strength of invention and strength of alteration,’ developed under prolonged pressure and compulsion into something ‘refined and daring.’ Will intensified itself under such conditions from ‘life-will’ into ‘power-will.’ The latter term emends the term used in this sentence in the drafts: will to power; ‘life-will’ is itself already a will to power. Will to power as human life-will expands beyond mere survival in ages of greatest danger and ascends to human power-will.” (Nietzsche’s Task, page 98.)
Human life-will is Wollust, human power-will is Herrschlust. Woman is stronger-willed in the sense of the former; man is stronger in the sense of the latter:
“Mind is life which itself cuts into life[.]” (Zarathustra, “Of the Famous Wise”.)
Excellent stuff. Truly.
I think it would be a loss for humanity if you stopped publishing in English. You are perhaps the only full blooded Nietzschean philosopher out there.
At this point I can mainly just agree and laugh a bit about the cruel realism of your thinking about the chandala-muck… the brain of a leech,- that is exactly the abject frenetic dullness, the hyperactive impotence that we are treated to by the sub-wormish life that slithers around here.
Your points on culture and fate essentially, are not infrequently too definitive to respond to.
This is why I never accepted the general denominator “human”. Ive always known this category to include many unviable beings.
Thus, this caste division is not entirely a joke. We may have to help nature out a little bit in the coming centuries where she will definitively separate the leeches from the beings.
Human nature is just starting to show its inner rift, and it is an absolute rift.
There will be two entirely separate human species at the end of 500 years.
We may suppose that if the chandala had human qualities she might, instead of verbally being supremely ugly as some kind of intellectual and moral statement, also simply cry.
But worn down formerly human waste like that has no capacity for such refined emotions as sorrow or love. It can only be angry, excited or horny. Usually it is all three at once. If you look at its behaviour, you’ll see that it emerges consistently from a muddly of these three states, which has become its being.
This is all excellent grounding material for a doctrine of human standards.
We can’t go on pretending that there is a homogenic species. It is required that we set standard and simply disband those that do not live up to it.
This is something we would do for the future generations - allow the thought, for later men who might not be quite as bold as we are, but will require our boldest thought to make a path into the future.
Working unsuccessfully on a reply yesterday, I was trying to find translation for these two terms. Its hard. Because Wollust translates into Lust, whereas Herrschlust translates into Lust to rule - so it is as if Herrschlust is a function of general lust, which isn’t the case.
The original German statement is true though, so we need truthful translation.
“For men of the future who at the present time take up the compulsion and the knot which forces the will of millennia into new paths. To teach man the future of humanity as his will, as dependent on a man’s will, and to prepare for great exploits and comprehensive attempts at discipline and cultivation, so as to put an end to that horrifying domination of nonsense and contingency which up to now has been called “history” - the nonsense of the “greatest number” is only its latest form: - for that a new type of philosophers and commanders will at some point be necessary, at the sight of which all hidden, fearsome, and benevolent spirits on earth may well look pale and dwarfish. The image of such a leader is what hovers before our eyes: - may I say that out loud, you free spirits? The conditions which we must partly create and partly exploit for the origin of these leaders, the presumed ways and trials thanks to which a soul might grow to such height and power to feel the compulsion for these tasks, a revaluation of value under whose new pressure and hammer a conscience would be hardened, a heart transformed to bronze, so that it might endure the weight of such responsibility and, on the other hand, the necessity for such leaders, the terrifying danger that they might not appear or could fail and turn degenerate - those are our real worries, the things that make us gloomy.” [BGE 203]
This gloom is only lifted by virtue of our will to be as hard as we know we need to be. It matters not what we can see for chances of success - it is not up to us to complete the mission, it is our task to breach the world, to bring to ruin the ideal of a unified Last Man.
The way to breach the world is to be too powerful, too clean, too happy for it. The task is to cultivate a happiness, the witnessing of which can literally not be endured by the waning type.
Massive waves of suicide among other desperate violence may erupt as the Earth purges itself by philosophic standards.
This is probably correct. We converged into Homo sapiens, but there is no reason to think that at some point it will not diverge again. This is predicted in such visionary works as 1984 and The Time Machine.
Ive read (not been able to verify, obviously) the Neanderthal was far more capable of reason than Homo sapiens, which caused him to think longer, which caused him to lose in the fight.
Meaning that we need to become vigilant against the type that is abandoning its reasoning faculties - they can become a bigger problem as they lose more cognitive capacities. The fight against stupidity is the hardest there is, as stupidity won’t flinch driving the whole world including itself into the ground, since it simply isn’t able to recognize any reality.
Its been clear that we are a threat to many people here. We need to expand whatever it is that threatens.
And we are - what threatens is that we as philosophers represent, for the first time since 400 BC, reality.
It is like turning over a rock. Our haters are the scurrying vermin and lowly bugs.
One of the humble challenges has been to discern the lowly bugs from the actual vermin. But ill quit that, its unnecessary. The sunlight is killing the vermin.
Perhaps the dumbest thing any philosopher ever did was to figure he needs to be polite to placate his audience.
A polite philosopher is like a caged animal. To a philosopher, most people must always appear insufferably weak, and he cant compromise to that weakness.
Thence how there have been no Christian philosophers.
Our path of increasing power will more and more require of us that we judge and condemn to oblivion those that refuse to engage reality. This is how Athens was born back in the day, by expelling the dumb, which is to say the weak, the scared.
Philosophy has been mistaken for something merely theoretical for too long.
Keep it up then.
My latest video on the Tree of Life is on this subject.
The outcome is favourable for Germany, the most sober and realistic country of the west. Meaning: the most ruthless, firstly vs itself.
These arent my choices, mind you. But having lived in the German speaking world, and having extensively experienced the rest of Western Europe, I am not mournful. Nothing will be lost that hasn’t already been squandered to the American exultation of the downtrodden, cultural Marxism.
No, theirs was the exact opposite.
It is surprising that you would think of nazis and Stalinists as enemies of stupidity, fear and weakness. They are the archetypical herd-species, idiots, too scared to look at their own shadow.
Kierkegaard is the obvious one, more interestingly are the modern philosophers and namely a Jewish one Hilary Putnam.
"Putnam, demonstrated that even for a philosopher, life’s spiritual and existential dimensions must be given their place. It was through Judaism, that he found a way to make sense of the soul searching and questioning many Westerners have and of the inner tensions most feel.
Putnam’s return to Judaism, especially given the bounds of his academic discipline, is a testament of his intellectual probity, and given the demands of the every-day, of a reflective human being".
