Nietzsche: Why You Must Live Dangerously
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Modern man avoids danger and, as a result, lost his vitality. Nietzsche:
“The secret of realizing the largest productivity and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live in danger! Build your cities on the slope of Vesuvius! Send your ships into unexplored seas! Live in war with your equals and with yourselves!”
Modern man is instead a creature of comfort: his dreams are limited to a slightly bigger house, nicer car, better vacation, and to make a few extra bps at work. His physical timidity is mirrored in his intellectual life: don’t be offensive, stay within the Overton window … For Nietzsche the willingness to embrace physical dangers is a precursor to embrace the (much more important) intellectual dangers:
“I greet all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour! For it has to prepare the way for a yet higher age, and gather the force which the latter will one day require, - the age which will carry heroism into knowledge, and wage war for the sake of ideas and their consequences.”
In this brief musing I will trace out how danger has been eradicated from modern life through Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu culminating in the American project.