/sa/ - Sāhitya & Itihāsa

This is something that came up to me quite a while ago. Der letzter mensch, or the 'last man' is unequivocal opposite to the over-man in Nietzsche's work. But what is interesting is that he doesn't expound upon the last man as much as he does about the over-man(atleast explicitly) and as such the idea of the last man is not as popular as the 'ubermensch' in the wider consciousness. But then again, I'd say he talks a lot more about the last man implicity, warning about that flameless cauldron, that ambition-less, stuck-in-quicksand quality manifest within oneself, that falling to the obstacle of self-overcoming. He explains it better here—

"For this is how things are: the diminution and leveling of European man constitutes our greatest danger, for the sight of him makes us weary.—We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to become thinner, more good-natured, more prudent, more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent, more Chinese, more Christian—there is no doubt that man is getting 'better' all the time. "

I understand the ideal of the last man manifest within oneself as : despair. There lacks any virility in despair. There lacks any ambrosia, any chirping of the birds, swaying of the leafs in spring's break, shuffling of the crickets, rumbling of the bushes, digging of the squirrels, humming of the bees, and the stealing of the honey by the bear! any vestiges of life–of liveliness, of triumph! nought but lack, lack and lack, suffice!

There lacks any movement in despair. Physically; its a wholly vegetative state and that is the last man(its not that one can think its that it matters not). That who shirks off their will-to-life like and an umbrella shirks off the barrage of rain pittering down its surface.

The last man is that who whilst living, has come to pass....

Note:- there is an interesting parallel to consider here with the practice of live-mummification amongst some buddhist monks.

>>160

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>>157(OP)

more on the living dead, a lack of movement is predicated by the lack of a need to. This occurs when one doesn't have to work very much to live comfortably(if even at all). In many such convenient civilisations, we could see a class of people that simply spend all their time not working, or going outside, or engaging with society at large for that matter. Call them hikikomori or NEETs or whatever, these people get enough social security to live comfortably or get paid by their parents. This is an illness rather difficult to eliminate, since most people have no ambitions beyond providing their own comfort and when they do reach that point they don't work harder or achieve anything greater really.

On the matter of convenience, ideally, this provides a nice net for people to be more courageous about their life, but it ends up making them less so as if they already are so leisurely, why bother? This in itself seems like an end for a society. This cultivation of a last man.