With The Self

Some people among us are called "abnormal people", though just a title, it can be treated as a custom when widely spread, and those people may even be thought as born with the unchangeable essence of abnormality. For some of the individuals, realizing of their being labeled as abnormal, they may lower their self-esteem while social values may lay even heavier on them. As an example, the highest value in the society, once the truth now the success, measured by the amount of the fortunes one owns, may also become his own idea of success, meanwhile, he cannot succeed because the conflict between his instinct, passion and the demand of social values makes him hardly can affirm his power to live. As a result, his existence as a living human-being diurnally becomes debilitated. In a secularized society, god no longer responsible for failures or successes, people are increasingly supposed to pay for them individually, which much further strengthens the relations between personal willing and so-called final results of matters. We ignoring the genealogy of the ideas of the highest social values, losing abilities to handle failures humorously like ancient Greek people who had tragedies, are dragged by our desires to popular success. Friedrich Nietzsche, who in his youth hood being attracted by the hope of romantic ideals of the age, by his intellectual tests found them disillusion, which as a result brought him pessimism. He reconsidered the genealogies of morality and truth in his era, found out a dialectical relation between becoming and existence. The value of reason being so high that people felt so proud with a fake mask of it while the value of irrationality being largely underestimated, he proposed a’higher culture’to make a way for the later to rise, in which the pursuit of happiness should only descend to a lower culture and a mild passion to hack through difficulties to explore knowledge should build a dynamic higher culture which may give revelations to an education not mentioning miracles. In his Human, All Too Human, he describes the thoughts above by encounters of breakthroughs of spirits in his age, and I try generalizing this book as a self-therapy book to conquer the’romantic pessimistic disease of history’...