An Excuse To Post Some Good Ol' Industrial Music

Listening to my offline music library, I came upon this video with some Nietzsche quotes. They may seem like the quotes of a depressed, anxious, tortured and often misunderstood man, which Nietzsche was to some extent, and though admittedly, he was as contentious and fallible as anyone, he had a lot of good observations on society. That is if you can wade through the darkness and sometimes seemingly ambiguous nature of his writings. One such quote below I thought I'd elaborate on with more of my own relevant thoughts. Also I like the song so I had to come up with a reason to post this video.

"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." 

To extrapolate through my own view, not elaborate as I can't claim to fully know Nietzsche's thoughts, as humans we don't seek objective truths, only subjective. We only seek information/power relevant to maintaining or gaining such in human form. Humans are discrete components and will always and forever harbor discreteness in cognition as long as we are discrete components of the universe. Objective truth is unobtainable, there are only spectrums thereof. Only the universe itself or god(s) has the whole "truth" and for one to gain the whole of it, one must become the objective. One must become a god to be omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. And of course even those concepts are contentious in relation to theology (can a god be so omnipotent as to defy his own existence or who made the gods?), perhaps even Set Theory (sets within sets sometimes create paradoxes which relates to omnipresence) or Godel's Incompleteness Theorem (one can't fully prove or know because to fully know requires more knowledge to prove more knowledge, ad infinitum in relation to omniscience) and such. It's a lesson in humility for objectivists who view their religion, ideology and such as the only correct one. As soon as "word" reaches the subjects's, man's, sensory organs, it becomes subjective. In some sense subjectivity is self-defeating but at least it's a more intellectually honest approach than objectivity. Speaking of which I became recently aware that it's seriously a thing espoused by some neo-liberal and conservative-type philosophers, moral objectivism more specifically, some of which I might agree with but "objectivism" is such a shallow hill to die on. The fact that people can't agree on this is evidence enough of the power of subjectivity in the human experience. And that's an objective fact. 😉 (No more emojis, I promise.)

Let me just say that objectivism does, of course, have merit to some degree but in my stream of information acquisition, I've seen way too much of the ideological pendulum swing towards objectivism due to apparently political fashion trends lately and not towards seeking more objective truths, which is also the ironic self-defeating part of objectivity; see Set Theory. Objectivity by its merit has to include subjectivity which introduces a paradox. That said, humans are primarily power driven, as I see it, whether they try to hide it behind extra-natural virtues or not. Even those said to be driven by humble ideals as love and kindness consciously or not realize the powers of those virtues. Of course I don't say this as an indictment against the utility of such soft powers and those who use them, only as a reminder that no matter what powers we manifest and use to our advantage, we should all be humble because there will always be more powerful opposing and imposing forces and that ungoverned will to/for power leads to powerful and therefore chaotic ends. Not that I know but I have a little pet theory in relation to thermodynamics that with more power comes more chaos, or potential anyway, and of course quirkiness and potential degeneracy of the organism. You see this in electronic components as well. Or as they say, with more power comes more responsibility because the consequences of misuse become even greater. And this, ladies and gentleman, is just another premise involved in the Great Filter, if you ask me. Besides the existential quandaries that come with intelligent life (with more knowledge one is weighed down in having to use said knowledge to discriminately parse more knowledge, the latency increases logarithmically as parsing time increases, aka, we become burdened with knowledge), intelligent life can only gain so much power, be it intellectual, physical and all sub-forms thereof before we screw it all up and use those powers, accidentally or not, against ourselves. 

"Without music life would be a mistake." - It's hard for me not to agree with him on this one. And now for the real show. Obligatory Assemblage 23...