This in itself is of course very interesting to pinpoint, phenomenologically as it were - as indeed beyond Nietzsche, metaphysics as such no longer exists, we can not think being without being the thought being. The Will to Power as an interpretation of its own conception - ‘self-birth’.
What was it that spurred on this Rausch and what was it that determined its direction?
So it wasn’t about truth as such. Yet it also wasn’t about herd-moral superiority, but rather master-moral superiority: the idea of being strong enough for the deadly truth.
Now how did I get beyond this? Well, when I finally saw the truth, I mean the truth about myself and life in general, I found that it was also actually better to be aware than to be unaware of it! Consider the very important aphorism # 344 of The Gay Science:
I’ll translate this crucial passage myself:
“[L]et one just ask oneself thoroughly: ‘why do you not want to delude?’ especially if it should have the appearance—and it does have the appearance!—as if life were aimed at appearance, I mean at error, deception, dissimulation, blinding, self-blinding[.]”
No matter how rhetorical, it remains a fact that life’s being aimed at appearance (Anschein) is itself an appearance, according to Nietzsche—and not necessarily a reality, truth! And indeed, like I said, I’ve found that it’s better for me not to delude myself about myself and life in general.
Yet he says that truth itself is an appearance, an illusion - grounded in its being a condition to life – a value-estimation which serves the self-enhancement of life, which he says is the essence of life itself.
Within the conception of value estimation, Truth, Eidos and Appearance all are… ‘represented’.
As for your second question, which you edited away: my practice, as Zeroeth Nature, is to raise my awareness of the importance of the fact that it doesn’t matter… Because that means it might just as well be true!
The fact of the matter is that, regardless of its scientific in/correctness, its scientific efficiency is indisputable.
No matter who or what forged Thors hammer, you can damn well rely on its power.
The Logical Affirmation of the ER thus represents the reversal of science, the completion of the Machiavellian task, by the completion of western metaphysics and its subsuming into a new project, a new discipline. The power of truth finally harnessed as a tool; this shall be true, in order that life justifies itself.
And it can only be known when it is justified to itself - this is why the project is scientific, why it serves the knowledge of truth; because in order to be known, truth first has to be created. A truth hard enough to be known (as illusion) without being tarnished thereby. What is nature besides such a hardness? Only man, and (other) creatures which must shun the light, not having the hardness to produce their own appearance so as to be valued for ones valuing. Honour is the projection of ones own valuing as a value, and this is ‘created out of nothing’ in terms of the old metaphysics. meaning it ‘simply exists’ - but how abysmally much strength is required for such simplicity.
The self-valuing logic applies to all beings, also the ignoble ones -
From it branch different ‘methods of being’ - among them the method of absolute valuing, which acts on the mundane world as the idea of gold acts on the minds of the poor - it is unrestrained in its meaning and its effect. It forms an axis to the graph of actions and interactions of lesser substances. The best (strongest) substances are the ultimate standards, limits of time ; the rule of Kronos as the golden age. Now the Affirmation of the ER is to consciousness what gold is to matter.