our virtues
...are solely to blame for this state of despotism that is overshadowing society. Those who endorse equality as their virtue are winning the battle between inequality and equality, but not to worry. Nietzsche predicts that those who seek power (the minority) will soon defeat those who stress equality (the majority) because their love for equality will leave them all in chains, to be ruled by the few who have acquired power. “Equality allows a tyranny, a soft despotic rule to suppress us without are even knowing it,” ~DeTocqueville. With equality comes a form of Utilitarianism, maximizing the greatest good for the greatest number of people. The problem with this form of governing is that it doesn’t allow people to live up to their potential. Nietzsche hopes that if a society got to this point, a free spirit, who seeks power, would be able to bring people back to a state of nature more accepted by Nietzsche’s standards. The question Nietzsche poses is why a society would want to live in such a state of despotism. The answer is that people have tried to do away with suffering; they no longer want to associate both pain and pleasure with materialism. The majority of the society believes that equality will remove suffering because the philosophy behind equality is that no one is to hurt another, instead, everyone should take care and help one another. This state of mind Nietzsche calls pity. It is in pitying that people stop being hardened and growing, and it is because of this that the author vi...