Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Vanity, Vanity, All is Vanity

Another thing I was thinking about today, while laboring in the yard, was a post by Ally at Who Moved My Truth.  Ally titled her post “Unreal Reality,” and within the post, Ally expresses her thoughts on the culture of perceived beauty that is advertised to the masses.  A thought with similarities to this post titled “Plastic Fantastic.”

While thinking about the above, I recalled a passage I had read the other day by Nietzsche, which is from What is Noble, section 261.

“Among the things that may be hardest to understand for a noble human being is vanity: he will be tempted to deny it, where another type of human being could not find it more palpable.  The problem for him is to imagine people who seek to create a good opinion of themselves which they do not have of themselves—and thus also do not “deserve”—and who nevertheless end up believing this good opinion themselves.  This strikes him half as such bad taste and lack of self-respect, and half as so baroquely irrational, that he would like to consider vanity as exceptional, and in most cases when it is spoken of he doubts it.”

Posted by John Venlet on 05/26 at 02:23 PM
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