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A person who wants nothing, either to attain to or to avoid, has no need of liberty, while a person who wants only what is acceptable to their contemporaries will find no absence of liberty perceivable even under conditions of utter despotism. 2/9
Then, we find that will-to-power, rather than being primary, is merely a consequence of equilibrium seeking. Someone who cannot reconcile themselves to something must conquer it, while someone who can reconcile themselves to anything is indifferent to being conquered. 3/9
Look to this for the reason that character and greatness are often in inverse proportion. But more to the point, wherever we find someone intact, not in a moral sense but in a holistic sense, we find that they are well calibrated to their surroundings. 4/9
Here is Aurelius's "The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself". Here is Lao-Tzu's "As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insoluble: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again. [...]" 5/9pic.twitter.com/0pfJd8N75Z
Everyone yields to something: whether in other men or in nature, and, far from being free from pressure from the masses, those in positions of authority feel pressures from both above and below. But these pressures are inert forces to one who has accomodated them in their person
The synthesis of ancient and modern freedom is an ideal enjoyed by very few, and in human societies, always belies a very specific character. Every nexus point of command in an ethological heirarchy is also a lagrange point of freedom. 7/9
All "great men" are found at these intersections of great forces The rest of us are all, to some extent or other, torn apart by our respective gravities, and can only choose whether to reconcile themselves to their fate or not. 8/9
Pay the obolus for liberty or retain it as a token of character: either way, someone is going to buy the damn lettuce, and someone else will be left with an obolus they can't exchange for it. Slave morality and its opposite are coequal forces in a system seeking equilibrium. 9/9
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