Lo, I teach you the Superman!

In fact we know virtually nothing about the historical Zarathustra? We know more about Nietzsche. I must emphasize, that this poetry cannot be understood without reading the author’s other works first. As all fictional characters are one part of their author’s personality Nietzsche’s Zarathustra was a part of Nietzsche’s personality at the same way. But Nietzsche’s Zarathustra was more than fictional character, he was Nietzsche’s imaginary friend.

One may ask, why adult needs imaginary friends. The simplest answer is because, unlike real people, an imaginary friend never betrays you, because he is you. And Nietzsche had been betrayed, rejected by people in terrible manner. The fact that someone has imaginary friends even in childhood, especially in adulthood is the clear evidence of terrible anxiety and social rejection. Having imaginary friend is seemingly preferring fiction over reality, but sometimes the fiction can be truer truth than reality. Because fiction takes place entirely in you.

One thing stuck me about this story, how averageness fears of deepness, and it fears of profound thoughts at the same way. Everyone is aware of their own mortality. Each and every one of us is going to die. But very few are willing to face their own mortality voluntarily.

Most people want to divert their attention from this involuntarily. Most escape to banality. But they lose the real antidote to this issue, the meaning. And the meaning of life is to end, but in noble way.

If there was no suffering, no mortality, only eternal life, life would lose meaning. If something is available unlimitedly, it has no value any more. The finitude of life makes every moment unique and unrepeatable. Just like the tightrope walker, we don’t have a second chance.

The ropeless mountain climber has no margin of error. Mistake means instant death. ANY MISTAKE. People might ask, why they need to choose suffering intentionally. The answer might be, because suffering is inevitable either way.

But running away of suffering multiplies suffering. If you cross suffering, on the other hand, you fight back suffering. And that mitigates suffering. The best defense is the Attack. If you run away from the beast, the beast is guaranteed to give chase you. Your only chance is fighting back. Never show beast your back, and the beast is embodied suffering.

What is suffering?

Facing your own mortality, and being okay with it. Facing the fact you’re going to lose everything and everyone in your life, including the life itself.

And when people interrupted Zarathustra, asking for: make us superhuman. Then Zarathustra turned sad. Because he knew the people understand nothing, and he wasted time with preaching.

Superman cannot stand banality. Superman is well aware of mitigating necessary suffering is nothing else, than eliminating meaning. For the Superman banality is unnecessary suffering, as everything which lacks meaning.

Superman is not made by someone else. He doesn’t ask anyone to make him Superman. That would mean asking one to take and bear suffering for us. We would ask for shortcut, or some special code we can hack the system with.

But no one can enjoy the glory of Superman with no bearing the suffering necessary to be Superman. There’s no special code, there’s no shortcut. The duty of mentor is teaching, and not carrying disciple over the way of learning. That wouldn’t be learning at all.

How does Superman relate to women?

Well, the question is rather, whether women can deal with the Superman. They admire him, sure. But the Superman does not fall for women. Women find a child in man, but not in the Superman. Or in other words women use man to have a child as a tool.

They fail to tame the Superman, therefore they are intimidated by the Superman. Women secretly want what they can’t get. That’s a challenge.

I remember my female classmates when I was a student in high school. It’s been around twenty-five years ago. They put together the ideal man for themselves. Unconsciously they yearned for the Superman. He must be handsome of course like Brad Pitt. His body should be as Van Damme’s.

He must act like James Bond, or Tarzan. And his ass ought to be like Tom Selleck’s. None of them gives below that. The teenage girls are freakingly picky, and idealistic. They set impossible expectations that no boy in their age can meet. And eventually they ended up not with the desired Superman. Far from it.

In their thirties, moreover forties they are happy if a bald jobless bum with beer belly wants something from them. Especially after several divorces as single mother.

Women long for perfection at a young age, while forgetting that they themselves are not perfect either. As age progresses the female sexual value decreases with losing physical beauty, but the male’s increases with establishing financial freedom. The age of woman is like a milk, and the age of man is like a wine. It’s just how the nature works.

Who was a loser or nerd as tenageer can become the Superman, reaching their thirties. The Superman never treats woman as prize, because he is a prize. And they feel their own insufficiently but only towards the Superman.

They got offended, while they find them incredibly attractive. They must choose between their vanity and gut feeling. The Superman is definitely not for women.

If the masses would know what is the Superman they would have never asked Zarathustra to make them Superman. Because averageness can’t bear the loneliness, as they perceive solitude which comes with being the Superman.

All profound thinkers are doomed to be loner. They don’t like society, there are too many actors, fake people, hollow characters. Being amongst them is the true loneliness. If you still want a true friend, you won’t find it among your neighbors.

You ought not to imagine the Superman as some Marvel comic superhero, but rather as a profound thinker, a true philosopher actually. An anchorite like Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. And fake friends are worse than your enemies. Your neighbours.

The worst are always those closest to you, and the best are those farthest from you. What does it mean?

Finding good company is a journey, a voyage to unknown. The smarter you are, the longer this journey, because your needs are so much greater. Your friend is the one who is the furthest away from you. This path leads not only to your true friends, but also to yourself.

Journey is nothing but gaining self-knowledge. The life is a journey. It sounds like a cliché so far, but it’s not all. The life is a journey but only for the profound personality, for the Superman. For avarageness the life is a circle.

Necessary suffering must have. Suffering is the best mentor if suffering necessary.

What is unnecessary suffering?

It’s an avoiding necessary suffering. The price we have to pay for not moving forward. Suffering with no meaning, which is a stagnation. The suffering that makes us believe we’re actually not suffering. Suffering that does not pay off.

If you observe people, you can see that ninety percent of them are stuck at the level of their twenties. People’s days pass the same way as they did ten or twenty years ago. They form a way of life at a young age, and from there they cannot be blasted away for the rest of their lives. Same place, same people, same job, even same destination to spend a holiday, same goddamn life as long as they have a pulse.

Are their lives a journey? Really??? No way. It’s a vicious circle. Everything is going over and over again day by day, in the rest of their lives. Nothing any challenge. Nothing any new. Just a bleak stagnation. The most are slaves of routine. Because the determinative of averageness are fear and comfort.

But for the Superman everything is entirely different. His determinative are meaning and purpose. Circle does not make meaning, journey does.

Suffering like a tree grows along with the tree of life. As tall as tree grows as tall the life and suffering grow. If you cut down the tree of suffering you inevitably cut down the tree of life too. And life will reach light through suffering. But you can’t get rid of suffering at the bottom of existence anyway, only of life.

That’s a whole different suffering, the unnecessary. The bleak stagnation in eternal darkness of banality and mediocrity.

In other words two things can happen if you plant a tree at the middle of the room, the tree either remains small or breaks through the ceiling. Ninety percent of trees remain small by choice, and only ten break through.

What is this ceiling? Overprotection, fear of anxiety or of the fear itself, loving comfort? Why trees grow so high? To reach the light. To overcome darkness.

What is darkness?

The darkness is the forest of masses.

Is the growth a fun for the tree? Far from it. It’s a bloody suffering. Then why it grows? Because the alternative of growth is even worse.

This is the secret of the top one percent in functioning society. Are your fellow trees interested in your growth? Never believe it. They will do everything to prevent it. Not because they want to reach the light instead of you, but they don’t want you to reach the light either, because your achievement judges them relentlessly. It points out their insufficiency, what they want to avoid at all costs.

Thus the advice of Zarathustra: select friend not among your neighbours, but among the farthests. They are the light. Put effort into reaching them, and you’ll reach yourself as side effect. But do not let anyone stand between you and your true potential.

But the higher a tree grows, the deeper its roots.

The taller a tree, the greater the chance of it falling. For example, the wind catches it, or lightning strikes. But paradoxically it does not make it more vulnerable, because it clings to ground with bigger root. Its resistance is much greater as a result.

Therefore, it is not the forest that gives protection to a tree that breaks to the light, but its roots. Unlike the other trees, this tree is perfectly fine without a forest. And if you plant a tree far away from forest, it will have a greater chance to grow and to perish. No protection, no obstacle.

Man like the tree on the hill, the more he seeks rise into the height and light the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep – into the evil.

The tall tree on the hill is a loner, but true loneliness is not when you are alone, but when no one around you understands you. If you rise into the heights no one around you will understand you anymore, and yet worse, no one will trust you anymore. Because you betray them with your self-improvement.

When you cry for understanding words, you’re gonna realize the intellectual development is a one-way ticket. There’s no way back. The people are like a sea, dark at the bottom. Light does not pass through them. They swallow up the weak. Only the strong has a chance to see the light, like a surfaced wave. That’s the fate of free spirit, The SUPERMAN.

And finally when Zarathustra left the people, his disciples were eager to follow him, but he left them either, saying, I will return when everyone will deny me.

I will teach you more the Superman.

To be continued. Thanks for reading me!