Make Good People Stronger
The Cyclops locks Odysseus in the cave and eats two of his men.
Why do good people insist on being victims?
There is no inherent goodness in living a tragic life. The world doesn’t care you decided good people can’t become successful.
It merely asks, who will be in charge, who will lead humanity into the future?
Why should it be the ones with the least morality? Why not us?
There is a disease going around that says, the more you suffer the more of a hero you are. Suffering for a cause, suffering for an idea, that’s what makes a human whole.
Stop.
Suffering does not make us better. Suffering merely gets us caught up with ourselves. We become so self-involved we forget everything else going on in the world.
Good people shouldn’t seek out suffering and pain and sacrafice, they should seek out strength and goodness. Suffering and pain will come no matter what. We might as well have the world in the hands of those most capable of using it justly. Not in the hands of those who would exploit it.
This worried nobody more than Nietzsche. Even though he loved the man Jesus was, he hated the moral code his followers created for themselves.
He called this victimized Christian morality a slave morality, because it sets people up to be dominated by the evil of the day.
Imagine a Christian Saint were stuck in the cave with the Cyclops instead of Odysseus.
What would happen then? Would he not curl up into a ball and be eaten, for fear of violence?
There are things within our modern world that could take the place of the Cyclops. Things ugly and unjust and born only of violence.
How should we treat them?
Should we willingly submit ourselves to them in peace, or keep them in check with a million strong people?
Though Jesus himself became a martyr, he did not believe all who followed him should become martyrs too.
He said so himself:
“I died so that you may have life.”
We should train ourselves constantly to love strength and goodness, to become strength and goodness itself. We must in order to defeat the Cyclopses of our world.
Let’s all seek to become heroes, not martyrs. Let’s all become kings for the first time in history.
Let’s make the good the strong once again. Let’s love life and live it fully. Strapped to the mast like Odysseus, hearing that siren’s song even though it kills us.
