"I WILL SPEAK OF FREEDOM", PART III

Not even the slave can be morally pristine, pure of heart, even though the slave is a total victim. The slave overcomes himself with the thirst for freedom and justice, because he is imprisoned, but when freedom and justice has been acquired properly, the slave may overcome himself thence with the thirst to rule over men ― and that is precisely when the slave becomes again a slave, as if a vicious circle reborn, or as if a viper fanging its own tail: the slave has redefined himself, observably and clearly futile to the power of corruption - a subordination like any other... whom amongst us could ever have believed that the slave, of all people, would transmit his own sufferings onto the other, and in the same cruel and malevolent style as the perpertrators of his own diabolical torments had done? There is inherent a seed of wilful submission in the constituency of man, and it is there as to manage, as to get a handle on, as to face the catastrophe of our existential conditions... but do not weep the story until the ending has revealed itself, for therein is also a seed of heroism in incubation! Man has the prerequisite in of heroism in him, but if a man can not confront its authority - be it an authority wilfully submitted to, or  be it one tyrannically and reprehensibly imposed - he will not amount to much; it has been said that it is easier to reign a city than it is to reign yourself, and that seems to be as truthful as anything can possibly be. It is not the hero which yearns for authority but paradoxically, it is the slave whom does so, and that is the nature of man - man, most of them, slaves, imprison the petty criminals, and they deprive them of their basic freedoms; they might even hang them or make them subject to public campaigns of humiliation... but they, in the midst of their darker episodes, appoint the heinous criminals to public office, to roles of tremendous leadership, and to heights of profound influence! Why is this? The slave cries out for freedom and for democracy, but not because the slave wants true freedom nor true democracy, but because it is within the slave to be as content as a slave could ever be, and slaves find their solace in authority: democracy, fundamentally, is a cesspool of slave morality, and almost only the awry kinds of people would aspire to utilize its concept and to paint his or her life pictures with the brushes of it! Only servants of slave morality, with some rare but spectacular exceptions, would be willing to exercise might over their fellow men, because no free man seeks or purports to seek the complete dominance over others, this is existential thralldom in itself, and not domination - the irony! The only righteous domination is the domination of yourself and your enemies; there is no solace for a hero in controlling and subjugating his kin; the neighbour, the acquaintance, the average commoner, be it anyone, lest they have made a move towards you. Tread these sentences carefully, though: I do not speak of violence, of terrorism, of mockery, for these things may see justifiable utility - I have seen it, I shall continue to see it across the span of my life... I speak not of these things but of domination and mastery, and over prolonged periods of time: the asp of corruption smite with fangs every despot and every tyrant of this world... and that is but a matter of time, for these exhibitions of dominance are merely projections: the man who wishes to rule over men lusts after it in order to compensate for his own failure to rule over himself. Whether the man seeking to dominate is aware of this or not, is a completely separate question. Yes, as slaves we all but the very few are, we may indeed imprison the petty criminal whose mind is great, and we may put on a pedestal the tyrannical criminals whose minds are feeble and cruel if not worse, and we do so because of the freedoms of stability and illusory self-reliance they offer; some sell domination with democracy, others with totalitarianism; for the clear-headed individual, these are just different degrees to tyranny; different styles to collectivism; mere different stages of the Machiavellian disaster. Both despotism and democracy corrupts the individual over time: in the case of despotism, it takes a fortnight; nothing corrupts like tyranny... in the case of democracy however, it may take a whole life, and it will generally be a much slower process, as if a poison growing in toxicity, in strength with every false claim to autonomy the slave has the conceit to utter, and for both cases it is a very truth that many people are captured by the lures of their propagandistic machineries of indoctrination - and then they believe they are truly free! But perhaps they are right... who am I to justfully define the tenets of freedom? None am I to do so! But I have learned empirically that, if taking freedom for granted, granted becomes only the curse of its most hurtful and paradoxical aspects - and nothing else.