So as I continue reading the Crime Library masterpiece, I learned a bit more about Nietzche.
He noted the difference between those courageous enough to construct their own morality, versus those who were classified as "followers and let others do their thinking for them."
I am really perplexed by this idea of constructing one's own morality. It is quite impossible, and you can never be original or successful in making a morality that is truly your own. One's environment is a constant constant constant constant constant and reliably dependable presence. Unless you're Tom Hanks in that movie. What was it? "Cast Away" or something? And you have to be born on a secluded island and survive on your own, without a mother's love or any other external influence, in order to truly carve your own morality. That's impossible, because without care, one is unable to survive. That established, social conditioning will always be a determinant factor in one's shaping of one's own set of beliefs. I think those cheesy and unoriginal strict Nietzsche adherents, who obviously are not courageous enough to think on their own, adopt Nietzsche's advice and go on a power-trip quest to mold their own non-conformist morality. And the only way your morals can be non-conformist, is if they are totally detached from Christianity--since the majority of people are Christian and God-fearing. So alternately, they go extreme and adopt crime and depravity as their morality. They are so afraid of being associated with the goodness & pureness that Christianity (supposedly) inspires, that they go to the opposite side of the spectrum. That is so childish and immature. Criminals are really dumb & therefore, even if they think they are non-conformist, because the ideal that they are so determined to reject is essentially conformist, their act of being deliberately rebellious to conformity exposes them as still conformists.
I find my own values as not attached to any specific School, but they are derived from cumulative experiences. My encounters with others' beliefs, or lessons I've learned throughout the years, that have inspired in me enlightenment or moments of epiphany. I've collected those ideas and adopted them as my morality, which in turn is always in flux, as I am always undergoing new experiences. And I admit that my beliefs are socially influenced. They are definitely influenced by conformity, but that I am not deliberately conforming or rebelling, I feel that my Thought is open and unbound to restriction.
And I've come up with a policy a while ago, where I couldn't accept people as Academics if they were adherents to the Ultimate Institution of Religion. Here's a new one: Until anybody learns to adopt truly original beliefs, I refuse to respect them, either.
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