The Morality of being Super Rich

[skyhawk]

[QUOTE=Wotan88;184448]I agree with you, Lenny and Skyhawk!

@Skyhawk
Maybe word "despise" was too radical from my side, but you know, what I mean. I'm just not too fond in such people. You've said it nicely, I couldn't say it any better.

Yeah I know what ya mean

@Lenny
Jan Stachniuk had very interesting idea about that. I said something about him in other thread. He was main ideologist of pre-WW2 Polish national socialism. He stated, that human should be heroic. Stachniuk's concept of heroism is quite similiar to Nietzsche's concept of master morality. Stachniuk said that to be heroic, you don't need to fight with dragons and rescue maidens. One can be heroic in his everyday life, for example in work. Heroism is based on concentration on your goal, trying to achieve it in best possible way, destroying obstacles on your way. It was rooted in positivist thought - working hard not only for yourself but also for improving global "organism" (country) was perceived as heroic by him.
I find this idea very interesting and mostly agree with it.

I too agree with the comments you posted on heroism and very much agree there are vast amounts of heros and heroines that live everyday lives away from the glare of lights that follow official heroes............but are no less heroic in their own rights. up

[Lenny]

Jan Stachniuk had very interesting idea about that. I said something about him in other thread. He was main ideologist of pre-WW2 Polish national socialism. He stated, that human should be heroic. Stachniuk's concept of heroism is quite similiar to Nietzsche's concept of master morality. Stachniuk said that to be heroic, you don't need to fight with dragons and rescue maidens. One can be heroic in his everyday life, for example in work. Heroism is based on concentration on your goal, trying to achieve it in best possible way, destroying obstacles on your way. It was rooted in positivist thought - working hard not only for yourself but also for improving global "organism" (country) was perceived as heroic by him.
I find this idea very interesting and mostly agree with it.

A wonderfully articulated idea. I love it!

That man Stachniuk's insight cuts to the core of the European Spirit, imo. His heroic figure is almost (simply) a "perfect European".

Quality for the sake of quality. The struggle for Order amongst Chaos. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge. "L'art pour l'art."
--> These drives come natural to the European. The same is simply not the case for other peoples very much (in my experience), who are usually more interested in those things as a means to make money or something.

I can't help but look back at the CroMagnon cave paintings of 30,000 years ago, and think that our "Volksgeist" has not changed so much in all that time.