GENIUS FORUMS

I try not to be fatalist here. Why make the decision to try to spread truth to other people though? If they want it they will find it. Perhaps you should just help those who come knocking? Is there any real value to spreading truth?

Particularly something from the letters pdf from Kevin:

My hatred for the herd is gone, and with it my love of truth. I can no longer
look down on the masses. They are geniuses, Buddhas, truly they are. To
choose to live in fantasy, success and failure, gain and loss, and be happy with
all: happy in pain, happy in joy, and to live long and healthy, is surely godlike
almost beyond comprehension. They feel themselves individual and whole,
free as can be.

From what I can tell he realizes that ultimately his quest is nothing special, no different from anyone else in the sense.

Nietzsche talks about the Overhuman lots but I don't see what vested interest he has in it.

It is actually rather unnatural to abandon humanity for truth (well, in a sense). Perhaps living as the rest do with the conscious knowledge of ultimate reality is a better choice -- never disappointed yet free to seek happiness and pleasure.

edit -- This is not really my position but I was arguing with a friend who actually took a more fatalistic viewpoint about it and said that he would rather be part of delusional society than go through the effort and unhappiness of abandoning that all for truth. I failed to convince him, probably largely because I have always disliked society and ignorance whereas he doesn't. Any advice? Is this just a lost cause?

WhorlyWhelk wrote:This is not really my position but I was arguing with a friend who actually took a more fatalistic viewpoint about it and said that he would rather be part of delusional society than go through the effort and unhappiness of abandoning that all for truth. I failed to convince him, probably largely because I have always disliked society and ignorance whereas he doesn't. Any advice? Is this just a lost cause?

Yes, this is a lost cause.