James Theodore Stillwell III

Every ought simply has no sense and meaning except in relation to threatened punishment or promised reward … Thus every ought is necessarily conditioned through punishment or reward, hence, to put it in Kant’s terms, essentially and inevitably hypothetical and never, as he maintains categorical … Therefore an absolute ought Continue Reading

What modernity lacks

“Courage, I say! Courage, not goodness, is the great desideratum–courage, that requires neither tin horns, nor calcium lights, nor brass bands, nor shouting multitudes to call it into effective action.
But courage that goes its way alone, as undauntedly as when it marches to ‘victory or death’ amid the menacing stride of armed and bannered legions.
Courage, that delights in danger – Courage, that knows not despair! Courage, that proudly, defiantly, smiles on death!

Courage, that regards with equal loathing the multitudes mad howls of hate, its stupid hee-haws and its stridulating ‘tremendous applause’.
Courage, that asks no quarter, even with the knife at its throat – courage that is stiff-necked, unyielding, sullen, pitiless!
Courage, that never falters – never retreats!
Courage, that looks down with supreme disdain upon all slave regulations, upon all rights and wrongs, upon all good and evil!
Courage, that has made up its mind to conquer or – perish!
That is the kind of courage this world lacks. That is the kind of courage that aids by active co-operation the survival of the fittest — the survival of the best

That is the kind of courage that has never turned a master’s mill.
That is the kind of courage that never will turn it.
That is the kind of courage that will die, rather than turn it.”

— Might Is Right – Ragnar RedBeard