I found this statement very interesting and I'd love for you to elaborate if you can:
"The truth of the matter is that most people affirming a traditional vitalistic mantra of the “will to power” are those who have succumb to the tendrils of techno capital, for they are already dead. Despair doesn’t blackpill us because the only way from -1 to 1 is through 0."
I’m glad you liked the piece! In short, the most common self affirming narrative is one that asserts a “will to power”, a kin to Byung Chul-Hans “You can” subject. This “cartoonish “will to power” which usually plugs into a grid core mindset is the newest form of Slave Morality. There’s nothing essentially wrong with trying to find ways to live under capitalism but embracing it and it’s liquifying effects on values is not what Nietzsche meant by affirming one’s will. In fact I would argue it’s the opposite. As for despair, I find despair is sobering and as Kierkegaard says it’s that which pushes to be that which we can become, it’s a force. We come out of pessimism through nihilism into positivism. I believe this “force” is what Simone Weil meant by “affliction”and this affliction and emptiness opens us up to receive.
![[Parrhesia]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBjZ!,w_80,h_80,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1bcf4ed-2dfe-4f99-9a6b-e68b31c9bb87_1168x1168.png)
![[Parrhesia]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QBjZ!,w_36,h_36,c_fill,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1bcf4ed-2dfe-4f99-9a6b-e68b31c9bb87_1168x1168.png)
I found this statement very interesting and I'd love for you to elaborate if you can:
"The truth of the matter is that most people affirming a traditional vitalistic mantra of the “will to power” are those who have succumb to the tendrils of techno capital, for they are already dead. Despair doesn’t blackpill us because the only way from -1 to 1 is through 0."
I’m glad you liked the piece! In short, the most common self affirming narrative is one that asserts a “will to power”, a kin to Byung Chul-Hans “You can” subject. This “cartoonish “will to power” which usually plugs into a grid core mindset is the newest form of Slave Morality. There’s nothing essentially wrong with trying to find ways to live under capitalism but embracing it and it’s liquifying effects on values is not what Nietzsche meant by affirming one’s will. In fact I would argue it’s the opposite. As for despair, I find despair is sobering and as Kierkegaard says it’s that which pushes to be that which we can become, it’s a force. We come out of pessimism through nihilism into positivism. I believe this “force” is what Simone Weil meant by “affliction”and this affliction and emptiness opens us up to receive.