Collective Human Thought has a Tendency to be Faux Original

In order to give Nietzsche’s quote credibility, it is imperative to understand the many modes of thoughts of society which, frankly, at best can be called random. Yes, social behavior, expectations, and justifications are capricious and erratic, but so is the human mind, or more appropriately, minds that collectively form this social consciousness. This approach is tautological in nature and also,on another note of frankness, Nietzsche’s premise itself implies a very mordacious assumption – collective human thought has a tendency to be faux original (thought). I understand, appreciate and emulate Nietzsche’s mode of thought but simulating his philosophy in the general social context gives an image of eternal contention and (social) dysfunction. Thus, what we can reasonably, and guiltlessly, try to defend/rationalize is society’s coagulative behavior and Nietzsche’s philosophy of Existentialism, which is, undoubtedly, the bible for modern day existence.

Primarily, the tribe convenes because it can most efficiently function by accepting a set of established rules and systems. Consider for the sake of a preliminary examination, the birth of money. Before there was money, there was limited, and complicated, commerce. It was very difficult to arrive at a general exchange value for most pairs of commodities. As, “Necessity is the mother of invention”, so, social function, through collective thinking, was enhanced when various communities devised methods of exchange in which a single commodity/currency, such as gold, was utilized for universal transactions. In a similar fashion, human race has and continues to solve such adversarial issues with collective efforts. In the past century alone, we have seen human efforts to eradicate dise...

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...t the tribe in its absurd and totally capricious existence is the cornerstone of my existential being. There are numerous ways, approximately eight billion, in which the world is being envisioned, and in the presence of such sheer magnitude, I yield. Now, it may be said that I have conceded to the tribe, but you all know that it is not true. Through all of my awe and pain, you saw that I made my choice; I owned myself, and I existed within myself and my reality.

Works Cited

1) “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

2) Cogito ergo sum1, Descartes’s proclamation- “I think, therefore I am”.

https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Cogito_ergo_sum.html

3) Shakespeare Quote from “Hamlet”- “To be, or not to be”.

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/not-that-question