

NIL
- Aug 8, 2021
- 6 min
Of slaves and superheroes
Nietzsche thinks we need to be more honest with ourselves. He thinks we need to be more honest about ourselves. Not to put too fine a point on it, he thinks we are full of shit. There is a nice word he uses to describe our propensity for untruthfulness: mendaciousness. Mendaciousness means dishonesty, but in his writings, it carries connotations of deliberately disingenuous misrepresentations of ourselves. We pretend we are something better than we are. We pretend that we che
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NIL
- Aug 1, 2021
- 2 min
A Voice from the Abyss
Dear Free Spirits, It has been quite some time since I posted to this blog but please be assured that, contrary to appearances, this project is thriving. The development of the book and the programme it describes has been consuming almost all my time since 2017 and the intensity of the work has recently increased significantly. Sadly, these circumstances allow me little opportunity to maintain and update this blog-site. That should change in the future, though it is unlikely
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