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Edition #18
Florence, 2025

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The concept of Good emerged from the exaltation of ancient nobles who, looking inward, created their own values. The noble himself labeled the opposite of Good as Bad, in a derogatory sense of "weak, pitiful." Initially, to be Good was to be powerful, and to be Evil was to be barbaric, female, or a slave.

A weak morality arose from a double

inversion of the morality of the strong:

the weak, filled with resentment,

interpreted the vitality of the noble as

an affront and judged all nobles as Evil.

Thus, if the noble is evil, the slave

inverts this and judges himself as good.

The slave "demonizes" everything the

noble does, seeing it as aggression.

Nietzsche called this scenario a

"cauldron of hatred." In this

environment, the weak are forced to use

their intelligence against the enemy

(the strong).

The image of Christ bleeding on the cross represents the values of the diminishing (i.e., privilege of the weak) of Judaism being "successful" in a Christian synthesis. It is a seductive tool that inverts morality, placing the weak as the Good and the only one deserving of divine grace, in this devaluation of life. Christ's death on the cross is a "relief," but also an eternalization of guilt.

The weak need to believe in God, Paradise, the Last Judgment, etc. They need to believe they will be rewarded for their suffering. Religions refer to the Afterlife because it has authority due to the possibility of being "painted" as Paradise. The simple act of speaking of an overly valued Afterlife is hatred and denial of reality – it's the inability to endure the world's misery. It's the only consolation for a miserable life. The metaphysical creation of the Afterlife is weak because it denigrates historical reality. Unlike artistic creation, which potentiates vitality and appreciation from itself.

The priestly caste is the elite of the weak. The priest's function is to make man internalize guilt. Guilt is linked to the creditor-debtor relationship. The idea of guilt stems from a demand. In German, guilt and debt are the same word (Schuld). "Forgive us our debts (sins), as we forgive our debtors (offenders)." Guilt was born of something material, of punishment. Punishing gave pleasure simply for the sake of another's pain. Punishing, ultimately, is not a means to an end.

The "revenge" of Christians is disguised and called by them "Divine Justice" which will be carried out by God himself. This inversion of noble valuation arose with Socrates, who projected the Blessedness into the Beyond. Behind the Socratic "optimism," which originated the Christian doctrine, there is a high degree of pessimism, in assuming that life must be corrected. Christianity inverts the meaning of morality so much that the Christian who prioritizes his own well-being is frowned upon. Thinking individually causes horror. But nothing is more unnatural than blaming man for what he is.

It is always one's own interest that motivates labeling something as Good or Evil. What is customarily felt as such comes to have its value defined as such. At the root of words is arbitrariness - all language arose by chance, because the "nobles" so desired. Therefore, one cannot choose a criterion that is above the others and take it as the standard to be followed.

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