Strength Training
How is strength represented in your culture?
It seems to me that strength in the american culture is represented not only physically, but by monetary wealth as well. People see hummers, and they associate the monstrosity with power, and the ability to convince others in whatever way that you are worth the money, and you are worth the pollution, and you are worth all the wasted oil, and you are worth the $3,000 gas-guzzler tax. It's all a game of who can bully whom, and none of it is worth a damn. American culture also favors the physical strength, but mostly because there are no Americans who run their lives like that, and none who are physically strong enough to a) conquer their emotional problems, or b) escape the effects of aging and life (i.e. sweat, hair in places it shouldn't be, no hair in places it should be, wrinkles, etc.). Our idealism in America has gotten to such a repulsive position wherein people who don't really look like they look are driving cars that shouldn't logically exist. And that for some reason denotes strength.
How is strength reprsented in Nietzsche?
When Nietzsche considers strength he is drawn to those with emotional strength. Those with the courage enough to realize that the world is full of suffering, but that if you let that knowledge keep you from doing the things you enjoy, life will never be fulfilled for you. In other words, Life's a bitch, but get used to it, because it's all we got.
As Gandhi says, “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
E. Margret Gliozzo
It seems to me that strength in the american culture is represented not only physically, but by monetary wealth as well. People see hummers, and they associate the monstrosity with power, and the ability to convince others in whatever way that you are worth the money, and you are worth the pollution, and you are worth all the wasted oil, and you are worth the $3,000 gas-guzzler tax. It's all a game of who can bully whom, and none of it is worth a damn. American culture also favors the physical strength, but mostly because there are no Americans who run their lives like that, and none who are physically strong enough to a) conquer their emotional problems, or b) escape the effects of aging and life (i.e. sweat, hair in places it shouldn't be, no hair in places it should be, wrinkles, etc.). Our idealism in America has gotten to such a repulsive position wherein people who don't really look like they look are driving cars that shouldn't logically exist. And that for some reason denotes strength.
How is strength reprsented in Nietzsche?
When Nietzsche considers strength he is drawn to those with emotional strength. Those with the courage enough to realize that the world is full of suffering, but that if you let that knowledge keep you from doing the things you enjoy, life will never be fulfilled for you. In other words, Life's a bitch, but get used to it, because it's all we got.
As Gandhi says, “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
E. Margret Gliozzo
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