What is your relationship with the truth? This is not an ivory tower theoretical angels on the head of a pin question. Your relationship with truth determines your relationship with everything else.
Most people at least publicly say that they want the truth and seek after it. If you don't profess that, it's hard for anyone to trust you. And without trust, it's really hard to have any sort of relationship.
Yet for most people, power is the priority. When prioritized, it's a nihilistic Neitzchean value, and it can be effective. But it's also highly destructive and sociopathic. Admitting to such is not going to win you friends. So the modern values system tends to be lip service to truth while pursuing power. We can see it all around us with politicians, CEOs, journalists and academia. Pretty much any centralized organization where power is in the hands of a few have at the top one or more people that pursued power to get there.
Power is seductive. And it's easy to see why people pursue it. But to do so at the expense of truth, where truth becomes secondary destroys, not just these people's souls but the organization that they create. Ill-gotten power doesn't last.
Truth is a metric for knowing thyself.
Ignoring the truth is to ignore the self.
Ignorance of the self leads to a lack of truth.
These people seeking power never saw the value waiting within, and instead seek it without to fill a gaping void they will never understand.
... either that or they're aliens
lets build that truth into an LLM combining every truthful people into one entity.
My senior school (roughly equivalent to high school) motto was "Seek Truth". It's the one thing I recall most strongly about the place, and I noticed as a kid because I thought it had some value and such mottos are generally ignored. I still like it because we should always seek truth, but be aware that what we can find in most cases may only be an approximation of the truth. Generally the absolute truth is unknowable.
Nietzsche devoted his life to put out a body of work diametrically opposed to nihilism. His philosophy is the literal opposite of it.
Just saying.
Thank you! I get so annoyed with people (mostly Christians) saying stuff about Nietzsche that only prove that they haven't even tried to understand
Usually the same ones that go through the roof when someone (simplistically) describes Christianity as a death cult. 🤷♂️
Self-sacrificial love for others is the greatest thing one can possess. Such love requires an understanding of divine purpose. A thing requiring a high dosage of truth, liberty, and thought.
Power is a cheap and destructive substitute for people who cannot think and are not free.
Truth is a treasure to be prized and appreciated daily. Live a life true to yourself.💜 🧡
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