Nietzsche being both a truth-teller and depressing ...
" ... ever since there have been human beings there have also been human
herds (family, groups, communities, tribes, nations, states, churches),
and always very many who obey compared with the very small number of
those who command - considering, that is to say, that hitherto nothing
has been practised and cultivated among men better or longer than
OBEDIENCE, it is fair to suppose that as a rule a need for it is by now
innate as a kind of FORMAL CONSCIENCE which commands: 'Thou shalt not
unconditionally do this, unconditionally not do that, in short 'Thou
shalt''.
" This need seeks to be satisfied and to fill out its forms with a
content: in doing so it grasps about wildly, according to the degree of
its strength, impatience and tension, with little discrimination, as a
crude appetite, and accepts what any commander - parent, teacher, law,
class prejudice, public opinion - shouts in its ears."
From Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
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