THE THIRD PATHWAY

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We live in a world of Power and Thought. Both are inescapable as concepts in the thinking. This article is about interpreting Nietzsche correctly for our times — the assholes will be the micromanaging folk who have no capacity to allow others to make mistakes; the ‘Niezsche’ is misspelt in the diagram and before the text is considered, immediately there is the asshole prejudice for the reading. Assholes in the moment can change, so as to stop the asshole action.

Education is the moment to stop ass-hol-ing around. It is not to correct the ‘miscue‘ (a minor error in judgment or execution), but challenging the whole scope of thinking.

The challenge is understanding Nietzsche’s balance of integrity and strategy in his writing on Power. What has to be understood is affirming integrity as an ideal and seeing strategy as mundane habit. Neither its purpose nor its intention is Trumpian understanding of Power. The purpose and the intent is overcoming of Self in the asshole moment. In that moment we take control of ‘self’ and reject the asshole action that the ‘I’ is making.

The error being made in some Nietzschean interpretation is assuming that the idea of a Fair World has no meaning. Each person has a capacity to make the world a little more fairer because Fairness as a human value is a Ideal. The true claim here is what is expressed as, “Be the Change you want of the World.” In that way a person who wants an unfair world cannot complain that others are unfair to them.

Sources:

Podcast from NotebookLM on Williams, Bernard (1995). Making Sense of Humanity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Jones, S., Thiel, J. J., Dávila, D., Pittard, E., Woglom, J. F., Zhou, X., Brown, T., & Snow, M. (2016). Childhood Geographies and Spatial Justice: Making Sense of Place and Space-Making as Political Acts in Education. American Educational Research Journal, 53(4), 1126–1158. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24751625

Mirror of Being, Why Do the WORST PEOPLE Seem to Succeed? – Nietzsche and the Truth About Power,

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Neville Buch

Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.

Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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