Nietzsche
didn't want to “tame” man with morality, but rejecting morality
is a form of taming man, and this is Nietzsche's form of
“improvement” which he otherwise condemns in priests. Nietzsche's
preferred “immorality” mostly applies to individuals, especial
genius individuals, it overlooks natural group selection, which is the prime unit of selection, and group selection requires
group morality and the natural
“taming” of man.
The
problem is in how the beast is civilized. Rousseau and Thomas Paine
saw primitive and natural man as a wild, free, and innocent,
individual,
as if group morality were not just as primitive and naturally evolved
over the tens of thousands of years when man became man. Edmund Burke had
a better grasp of the naturalness of group behavior (before
sociobiology) and the civilization that naturally grows up around
it.
Our
instincts, passions and reason can be enlisted in service to our
higher evolution, and higher evolution does not merely “tame” us,
it makes us healthier as we move toward the zenith of truth, goodness
and beauty, or Godhood. As with artists, geniuses in various fields can be as
free as they need to be during the creation of their work, (they
probably actually need to be free during the creation process), but
then it is most natural for their work to be judged by the cultural
needs of the group or by group morality, which is more impotant than
individual morality.
What
happened when the Nietzschean geniuses of modern art (or philosophy
for that matter) had no group or social concerns? By any sane
standards we received mostly garbage. For example, with psychometrics today we can almost easily distinguish the social geniuses from the
anti-social criminal geniuses, and our grants and work awards to
individuals would follow after this lead---but always leaving room
for those few who fall between the psychometric cracks.
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