/lit/ - Literature

>>14960217
keep truckin anon

As it was designed to be. This is why he loved the metaphor of the ubermensch which is a technical rock climbing term (the strongest guy on top who helps the rest climb with him by rope), not the "SuperMan". Point is to cut the rope and let the weak part of you to fall (here the Nazis used this idea to justify genocide of the "undesirables", wrongly), thereby lessening the load and letting you soar high.
There is a reason why in his The Tragedy of Birth he transforms the pessimistic quote, " the best in life is never to have been born at all, the second best, dying as soon as possible, " to "the second best is to laugh." He isn't some downer, which is the profane view.