Non-attachment

Nature and reason reveal more than all the poets and prophets sent to man over all of time. Nature shows us ceaseless struggle, existence bounded by a yearning simply to survive; the seeking of all things for the next struggle; the avoidance of predators by prey, the endless increase of the single organisms power which in turn increases and redefines the species and the bounding of these highest predators by only the grandest dictates of ecology.

Such as in nature is in man.

Nature knows no pity. Nature cares nothing for cares. There in her bosom stirs all the atoms that once were; neither created nor destroyed- as soon as one instantaneous configuration can be said to have occurred it is then condemned to change.

Nature shows us fate. Here is no will that can be appealed to, no loving father to protect the broken spirit. Fate is the outcome of all things ventured. Nature passed her crown to the lion as the highest of predators. Reason passed its crown to man, the only organism able to clutch it, even in a limited capacity. Courage means to love this openness. Amor fati, or love of fate and uncertainty, is the quickest path to calming the inner ocean of nature which may overcome the ratio.

Nature shows us truth in the depths; skepticism as the prerequisite for knowing her deep secrets. It shows us many layers to everything; its truth is like a double-faced Janus whose different sides can be considered the only side. Perspective is key. To learn to shift ones perspective is to transcend and become the highest element that man can become, the thinking thing, the reasoning man.

The reasoning human is the most powerful being we know of. Only his mind could conceive of the idea of god, then have used it for centuries to mold and control the herd, only to see his creation go laughing to his death, having cast aside his hellish love of man.

Nature shows us all things in strife. Strife shows the survival of the weak and the strong in mutual parasitism. Society was a compact between weak and strong for the purpose of domination of another. It is will to power. It is the sacrifice of the individual to lust, greed and violence. This is why it is evil. It is organized crime.

Nature knows no good and evil. But only edification and its inverse- death. The only standard of the good- that which strengthens is the good, that which weakens is the evil.

Nature enshrines cruelty and blood-letting; of giving and taking of wounds, and of a constant striving for a precarious dominance.

Nature always rewards cowardice with destruction; courage and tenacity with survival. "The prayers of cowards Fortune spurns..."

Nature disciplines with suffering like the Pauline god; and molds its mightiest with high tasks. Nature loves cunning.

And Nature simply is. The cosmos has no beginning nor end in time. It has no beginning nor end in space.

A is A. Nothing could refute this, or nothing could exist. What is is and what is not is not. Any avoidance of this leads to death. Any cowardice toward reality leads to death. Any avoidance of this is in turn a wish for a weakened life, which for the greatest would be a kind of death, or a genuine wish to see oneself die. Hence the legends of the Apocalypse.

Nature doesn't delight in rest, indeed as Marcus Aurelius tells us delights only in change.

All that is is all that will be, and all that will be is all that is.

To condemn the all is the condemn the one, to condemn the one is to condemn the all.

The man is by his nature a reasoning thing. To abandon reason is to abandon nature.

A man can choose to live by force alone and abandon reason. Sic Semper tyrannis- all who live without it will die without it. Observe all iron empires that are given to rust and all of god's supposedly immutable laws that are rewritten and reinterpreted, ad infinitum.

Reason must accept infinity as the first principle of all things.

To see brutality alone view the 20th century. Indeed, this past century was the greatest of all evils hoisted on man. For here, in a sea of great intellectual accomplishment, human politics and actions went over to brutality. War as politics by other means became commonplace, followed by politics as war enshrined in the ideas of universal brotherhood and socialism. Growing out of the weakness of the 19th-century ideals so gleefully killed but never replaced, the orgy of destruction spent all positive energies, and left the end of the century to a cold death.

Passions are not shirked, but instead reason is a tyrant of them, enshrined as a Caesar, a dictator for life and the purpose of edifying life. This dictator knows that without rage there is no fuel for the charge. This tyrant of reason knows that all things must be in balance, but that this is not stasis. Life inevitably involves suffering. At the root of suffering is desire. Expectation can be a synonym. Do not expect clear or right speech nor expect sensibility.

Time is a measure of decay, or our passing into the abyss. All living things are so defined by their finite nature. Time then necessitates decisiveness. To declare one's path in life in crucial. "To find one's unique avocation is the individuals highest good." Not all facts can be brought to what many consider due to deliberation, to what people commonly call good sense. Every man is in a sense a desperado; that is why we love the myth of them so much. Everyone is living on borrowed time, chased by some oppressor from which only temporary relief may be found. All things must be done. Reason necessitates action, movement, and deed. Reason is not the logos spoken of by the philosophers of old. Instead, it is that which drives one movement, the fuel for attaining the purpose, the individuals highest good.

Purpose is made. It is not given. Reason is cultivated to bring forth purpose. Once found purpose is to be chased, nature is to be finally cowed, and all is won by the struggle revealed by nature.

The genius is a curse to the stupid. His power is deeply resented. He comes to a problem mulled over for many centuries and shreds it into its parts, solving each one and leaving the tatters for future generations, shredding the hopes of the lesser men whose entire existence was based upon the endless mediocrity of the status quo. Hence the resistance to new theories in science. The lame respond to failures and disasters with spittle and incomprehension.

Hence socialism, government interference and the death of the

Statesmen in modern politics. Reason is hated and hated it recoils like an oppressed race under the apartheid of the stupid. Here where the genius comes, those who have learned to hate him will cry stupidities, and make appeals to degrees, moralities, and other scraps of paper which have nothing to do with what is ahead of them. In love with precedents, they will never see the way out. This is how the majority of the so-called intractable issues of human experience and history arise- the reasoning man is shouted down. For his reasons sound cold and sharp. But the herd animal is less intelligent that his undomesticated cousin.

Irrationality itself is subject to reason. For reason lords over all, and in human affairs often consists in means rather than ends. As a casual chain, irrationality is a path on the rational. Thus the conquest of an irrational people by a rational may take place, and itself be rational, though it will have seemingly irrational ends, and may require irrationality such as variations upon the truth. Reason sometimes demands lies, sometimes demands a different morality from the mighty than it would for the many.