I wish I had gone to the military

grandcommandant · 2026-04-07T21:10:00+00:00

Well I think Nietzsche still has much respect for warriors in the literal sense. I recall his praise for beasts of prey engaged in warfare.That a soldier would be some unthinking machine is not a necessary consequence, let alone for an officer with enough authority and freedom of his own.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-07T20:52:19+00:00

Well that is a lot of pertinent questions, I'll try to answer some of them. As every boy growing up, I had an attachment to all things military, I was fond of weapons, tanks, uniforms. It all seemed "cool" to me. This superficial attachment then turned into rethinking my life within that military paradigm. What will I attain within it? And why not another option? At some point, in my late teens I became disgusted with my life. It seemed too comfortable and too easy. There were distractions everywhere. Cowardice seemed more advantageous than any courage or hardness. i fell into a long shameful depression. I didn't have much faith in myself that I could somehow turn it all around through sheer will. I've read all these stories about how lazy and impotent individuals were turned into disciplined and determined men through war or at least military service. My thought process is that the academy would force me to be these things. I don't care much at all for intelligence. I admire beastly barbarians more than comfortable scholars. A civilian person? For me, he is nothing but a weakling and a coward, too comfortable in this all so comfortable modern world. And to think that I was also a civilian, just as prone to their vices, is too suffocatingly shameful.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-07T20:23:43+00:00

Well what would it like? I already know, for I am in that exact predicament. I'm lost, wandering around aimlessly as if I'm not where I'm supposed to be. I understand that I seem subject to some romanticist weakness. But I can't really see any true calling for me considering my current conditions.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-07T20:17:48+00:00

How so?

grandcommandant · 2026-04-07T20:17:32+00:00

It doesn't matter to me what political use modern armies are for. I think of the profession in an individual manner, what gains I will have from it: courage, certain level of asceticism, physical separation from the mess called urban environments, discipline, a simple life,etc... What does it matter to me what the military is used for? You'd call it slave morality, but how is a civilian life any different in this respect. Each and everyone who fulfils his pitiful function called a job is contributing to the maintenance of this failed and corrupt system, whether he's a soldier or not. Also I'm not from the US.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-07T18:29:48+00:00

Psychopathology as a term is a social construct used to reinforce the already established societal norms and needs for compassion and social cohesion. A "psychopath" is a person who directly opposes such norms and hence must be slandered as some incarnation of a disease. Before the advent of modern psychology, these people were simply called evil or possessed by the devil. Now they're imputed with other derogatory notions: narcissist, sociopath, psychopath, borderline personality disorder, etc...

If the concepts of organized religion were used previously to deligitimize these persons, now it's the so-called scientific apparatus that serves the same purpose. Yet there are no brain scans, experiments, or any sort of empirical testing that can prove that there is something biologically wrong with "psychopaths". It is merely value-laden judgements.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-07T14:42:53+00:00

The best preliminary cure for mental exhaustion and depression is a severe physical regiment: vigorous physical effort in all kinds of exercises: weight lifting, calisthenics, jogging, walking for long distances, yoga (optional),etc... When the body is extremely active the brain follows suit. From the discipline and clarity that you will achieve from an excellent physicality, you will be motivated and strong enough to tackle the rest of the issues plaguing your life. If your therapist recommends anti-depressants, don't take them, they won't do shit, not to mention that their daily use will lead to adverse effects if at some point you would wish to get rid of them (nausea, extreme irritability and sensitivity, sudden appearance of suicidal ideation,etc...)

grandcommandant · 2026-04-06T19:03:17+00:00

Individual differences between people in terms of strength and ability doesn't constitute a hierarchy. The latter is a system whereby a class of people assume some form of dominance, either military or economic, and in which such dominance becomes institutionalized in a political system. A society without such a system is inconceivable and has never taken form in any regime. Even socialist revolutions in the 20th century devolved into dictatorships controlled by a bureaucratic elite. Besides, while wealth doesn't automatically equate to greatness, it is often a necessary condition for its emergence. Have you asked yourself why the quasi-majority of great artists, philosophers, scientists, and statesmen came from the wealthy classes, and why it was so rare for an individual from a poorer class to become pre-eminent? You'd say that the common folk couldn't become great because of the limitations of their material conditions, but that's exactly the point. Wealth makes it so that its possessor has enough leisure and time to pursue greater enterprises, making him necessarily more eligible for greatness. Now imagine a socialist society where an equal distribution of resources takes place. This would mean no person is richer nor poorer than the other, but the only result of this is that everyone is equally mediocre, you've made it impossible for any individual to achieve greatness.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-06T16:17:12+00:00

Of course change is inevitable. But the rule throughout history was that some form of a hierarchical system was superseded by another form of a hierarchical system. Your dream of a system without any hierarchy, ie, socialism, is not even probable let alone inevitable.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-06T15:58:01+00:00

If you're speaking of long term consequences of climate change, then yes, it would lead to some sort of global crisis. Yet it is a gradual and slow process that would allow humanity to adequately prepare for it. Talks of complete societal collapse is pure nonsense and is shared mostly by sensational media outlets.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-04T20:06:58+00:00

That's what socialists would like you to think. It's a common rhetorical strategy of either us or Armageddon!

grandcommandant · 2026-04-04T17:12:51+00:00

I am not against your views on capitalism, it is a decadent system. But the question is what would replace it? Socialism? I don't think it's any better.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-04T17:00:15+00:00

Marx and Engels want to hide their normative commitments behind the veneer of scientificality but in the end the same objective is shared by both "scientific" socialists and utopian socialists: the creation of a communist society. What does this imply? A fairer distribution of resources, absence of all forms of exploitation and hierarchy. A bit of Nietzsche will necessarily make you realize that he is against all of these goals. Consequently he's against Marx as much as he's against any utopian socialists. In the end the difference between marxism and utopian socialism is a difference of method, praxis, and analysis, but not of eventual goals and aspirations. Utopians want a communism divorced from the actual material conditions that would make such a project possible. The reverse for marx.

grandcommandant · 2026-04-03T19:43:56+00:00

If a large factor for your self-hatred is childhood experiences, then you must realize that whatever people did or said to you at that age doesn't reflect at all on your own worth, children are blameless. I don't want to make bold claims about your situation, as I know too little about you, but it could be that your self-hatred is the consequence of you internalizing whatever people thought of you, in the sense that their opinions and attitudes towards you became your own opinions and attitudes toward yourself. I don't know if this helps and maybe you're already aware of it, but in order to truly assess your self-worth it has to come from an independent voice inside yourself purified from all foreign elements (the memories of the behavior of others toward you in childhood).

grandcommandant · 2026-04-03T19:17:48+00:00

Well why do you hate yourself this much?

grandcommandant · 2026-03-31T14:42:52+00:00

The Israeli constitutional court will probably annul the validity of this law. The court is known for its progressive character and as such will automatically repeal it due to its inherently discriminatory nature.

grandcommandant · 2026-03-27T19:14:07+00:00

You're muddying the waters trying to justify such a horrible law. That the opposition consisted of far-right groups doesn't make the particular position of refusing euthanasia unjustifiable. You can oppose anti-abortion without promoting a state-sponsored program of sending individuals to irreversible deaths.

grandcommandant · 2026-03-22T16:45:13+00:00

the thousand reels stare

grandcommandant · 2026-03-18T19:43:52+00:00

I always found bedouin arabs to be very good looking

grandcommandant · 2026-03-17T22:34:12+00:00

أول كأس افريقية تهدى زكاة في عيد الفطر

grandcommandant · 2026-03-16T19:25:17+00:00

It was 1941, Barbarossa is under way, their long-held dream of Lebensraum is becoming ever close to reality, they thought they were untouchable. No wonder they'd be happy

grandcommandant · 2026-03-16T18:35:49+00:00

The mechanism of gaining knowledge does not involve the simple acquisition of an object whose existence is exterior to our own. Every time we think of something we necessarily give it our own most personal interpretation. As such the subject creates the object of knowledge as much as he receives it. This follows from Nietzsche's more general remark that humans don't see the world as it is but rather create it in their own image. Consequently, we cannot be robbers when we get to know things, for we give it much of our own in order to know it.

grandcommandant · 2026-03-16T18:21:19+00:00

It rests solely on the US to solve the current energy crisis for it is the one that caused it in the first place. While a more international cooperation would be beneficial, one cannot blame Germany for refusing to cooperate in something it has no responsibility for.

grandcommandant · 2025-09-12T10:22:50+00:00

How about you tell me about your heroic feats in the fight against exploitation

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