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Okey Dokey
Just to get the meaning straight, did he mean that workers gain less intellectually from working than fighters do, from fighting? And if I understand where this is going, did he mean that fighting teaches one faster than working? And what do fighters learn? To have an appreciation for life, having been close to losing their own? Or the lessons learned in war are more valuable than those learned at home? Or both?
I know you always hear about war turning boys into men, since they are forced to mature a lot faster.
Anyway, I know you said those who haven’t been in a war shouldn’t answer, but I don’t think the things I asked would require me to have been in a war to understand. Besides, you could always just ignore this if you wished to.
Does being a medical orderly count…assuming I pose as a proud soldier carrying a weapon that I never used, and have a body that couldn’t endure the hardships of being a medical orderly, and began to quickly deteriorate, at which point I had to leave the front line of medical orderlies and never quite recovered.
Fighting is work; in fact, it’s the degree-zero of ‘work.’
More to the point, mending a break is the process of health – education, confidence, strength and so forth. Breaks are, of course, required (‘What doesn’t kill me…’) but they are not intrinsically valuable.
In fact, we have to go even beyond value in order to re-value. Breaks are valuable only in that they serve to move us beyond closed systems of knowledge and autocratic systems of control.
We ought to claim our joy in healing wounds, not in making them!
I admire those who are warlike from the very heart.
Well, I was chased by the cops a few times when I was younger. Does that count? That is about as close to a “war” as I have ever been, besides fighting, of course.
I’ve never taken anything Nietzsche said about war, battle and the like to be more than metaphor with respect to philosophy, thought and knowledge. The sort of interpretation expressed in the OP is, in my opinion, way off base.
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