In other words, the power which underlies this eternity of recurrence underlays the will to exercise it’s self valuing. Things may have changed for N’s outlook, if he was still alive today, and it is likely that he is, in some form, his recurrence would indicate an ever changing recurrence, and self valuing would if i understand that concept, would imply toward a universal sense of self. N as a humanist? A proaction, would he have retracted some of his ideas to conform and repair the variance which developed in respect to the ring, as a result of his break with Wagner and his realization that his morality was grossly misinterpreted? And finally, would any philosopher be able to revise his own philosophy? I would think he would and could find a way to insure against the now growing sentiment, that poetic sensibility, can be sidetracked into opportunistic interpretations.
Were he alive today, modern and postmodern philosophy would perhaps, take another course to forestall some of the dead end situations apparently present today.
The ring, as conceived by Goethe, Wagner , may combined the coming technological age with a new vision of God, one where the concept could be resurrected, as in Brunhilda’s awakening. I do not see, how he could have re-asserted man’s central role as the product of creation, (again was he were alive today) , except through a re=affirmation to align that with the recurrence. Which would mean, ultimately, some kind of dramatic re-elevation of the aesthetic elements of tragedy.
Is this merely the childish inference or is there a hidden element here which sadly can only be best ‘understood’ by those unfamiliar with the cynicism of something far worse then romantic disillusionment ? Once we cease to have the capacity to love our own children, the devolution of man’s self valuing is imminent. Thus, the sado-masochism inherent in the very depths of the psyche, where children become early on, the recipients of the futile anguish of their parents, are made to concede the untimely end to their innoscence.
How far is society willing to entertain the growing conspiratorial doubt, of the early childhood fear, of this hopeless attitude? Pink Floyd sings of this in the ‘Wall’ , that, education building on blocks of doubt, rather than of faith, has in effect demoralized society, the effects being a denial of pessimism’s role in any discussion of future evolution. Pessimism in this respect can be seen as far more constructive then an over ebullient optimism built on false premises.
We are at a crossroads, change is the necessary order of the day, and although those to whom philosophy means only a jest, a taunt, or a ‘dressing down’ as in the fairy tale of the ‘emperor has no clothes’, where truth can only be discovered at the expense of political correctness, while those entertaining and musing those philosophers who are kidded, and excused ,catered to for silly remarks on account of their difference of outlook?
We have reached certain limits, not yet critical, but where such techniques of indulging them can no longer be afforded, masks have to come off, the tragedy exposed, as worn out cliches, and the intent and forthright honesty re-established.Then the reconversion of power, be truly re-aligned, in this age of Acquarius,and it WILL cause a natural re-alignment of the natural order of psychic elements.
