K: why thank you… not every one enjoys my posts…
but you have to wonder, why? my guess is that those people
are unhappy with who they are, but because they don’t
engage in this idea of “know thyself” they don’t know or understand
why they are unhappy with themselves…they don’t enjoy being
reminded that they do not engage in an honest “reevaluation of values”
as Nietzsche called it, or as Socrates called it, “know thyself”…
it is the same thing, reevaluation and knowing oneself…
the truth is, most people are cowards, not physical cowards, although
they are plenty of those, no, most people are cowards of the heart,
they are afraid to engage in a honest evaluation of who they are…
they are afraid that they might find out that their self understanding
of who they are, is wrong… and that they aren’t who they thought
they were and that journey of “becoming who they are”, again Nietzsche,
is denied because of their cowardice of the heart…
to “know thyself” to really know thyself, takes real courage, real
trust and most people don’t have the courage it takes to “become who
they are” or to begin that scary journey to “know thyself”…
I have in the past called this a “nihilist” age and that it is,
but it is also an “age of cowardice” because people are afraid to
explore or begin the journey to discover who they truly are…
to examine without fear, their true nature… to become who they are…
it take courage to see the truth about oneself, real honest courage…
and that is hardly seen today…
and seriously missing from society and from this site, ILP…
I challenge the people here to honestly begin the
journey to discover the truth about themselves,
to “know thyself”… in a real and honest way…
Kropotkin