Nietzsche and Machiavelli on The Dangers of Morality and The Future of Mankind

"Suppose there lurked in the 'good man' a symptom of retrogression, a danger, a temptation, a poison, a narcotic, by means of which the present sacrificed the future... So that morality would really be to blame, if the maximum potentiality of the power and splendor of the human species were never to be attained? So that really morality would be the danger of dangers?” – Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals

0:00 Danger of Dangers
2:33 Machiavelli's Critique of Christianity
6:23 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
12:06 The Great Task Ahead

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[Altmanysko]

I’ve been recommending this channel like crazy. There’s def a movement in the young men that I’m hanging with. You’re doing the gods/ god’s work!

[isawamoose]

As someone who recently started raising chickens, I came to see how divorced we are from the realities of life - how sacrifices actually sanctified and honored the process of life and death and was a vigilant reminder to our own situation and those of others.

[joshualove]

This is one of your best videos thus far in my opinion.

[badmen]

The mainstream media reminds me constantly of the dangers of morality

[malachaipulido]

Why have I always resonated with Machiavelli and nietzsche? Even before I ever began reading them I’ve always felt this way about my outlook on life and morality.

[mikkelbjerring]

Just finished and i gotta say, you are only getting better at this!

Keep up the good work brother, the struggle is everything!

[blooeagle]

Becoming a Heathen has shown me this disconnect. My morals lie with Nature, that My Gods created and from it, me. My body is of the material stuff of this beautiful Earth, and my soul is divine in essence. I am beholden to the laws with which All Father created by giving all life its existence.

Shaking off the secular victim mindset is very difficult, but within me I know there is a conviction and a strength that would frighten the modern liberalist thinker, but that same strength is in all of us.

[theBenStrothmann]

"Morality" should be a personal matter, in my opinion. Values help a man reach his full potential, but they should be his own, his personal credo, not those of a society. Because the weak will always attempt to tear down the strong, so they themselves may appear less inadequate.

[Slangnegativ]

Fantastic video Ark, strikes right at the core of the many problems of today.

[Matt_JPearce]

Great insight in this video

"could our high morals be a way of justifying ourselves to ourselves"

[exothermic]

Absolute beauty is what I find here. When people question why I share the very values you showcase in this video I can’t help but go to a place in my mind and think about the movie Wall-E. No amount of equality and safety is worth that fate.

[thomaspoisel]

Great answers for great questions! Well done, brother, well done, like all your videos. Just stumbled on your channel, and, since 2 days, i listen to you and my heart says "YES!" - to everything you say. Thank you. Tom

[mitrom]

I have a feeling this is going to be a good one!

[ericbouchard]

I don't know what happened to my last comment, but I'll just say, I'm extremely grateful I found your channel.

[andrewbowen]

It's one thing to make a video about the eternal crisis of societal collapse, and another entirely to actually follow through on what Nietzsche suggested and critically look at morals and values from a genealogical perspective. Everybody does the former, nobody the latter.

[mariosgalactic]

Values have evolved as a tool to help an organism to survive, firstly, and after to thrive and expand its space. With this in mind we should not critisize values themselfs but the type of life they serve. A moral system's value should be measured according to the life type who constructed it. For example if a moral assertment created by a population under slavery probably will emphasize on just survival and even hate for expansion and growth just because of ressentment for their masters.

[ezekieldavidlarosa]

Very well done! Many great points, an excellent analysis!

[martinarreguy]

The only reason that anything has identity, worth, or power is that since birth, we have been taught to give it so.

Culture and morality are not our friends.
Terrance McKenna

If you base your life upon nature's needs you will never be be poor.

If you base your life upon man's opinion you will never be rich.

Nature's needs are few-

While those of opinions are

Seneca the Spaniard of Rome.

Powerful and presented video!

Empirical information to Live by.

[KobyMathews]

I just found her channel recently bro and I love it

[privatekarateka]

Another great essay. Keep up the good work, my friend.