Nietzsche

My name is Friedrich Nietzsche and I would like to explain the concepts of my work, On the Genealogy of Morality, to you. "Good" initially designated only the right of those individuals with social and political power to live their lives by sheer force of will. But a social class, motivated by their resentment of their natural superiors, generated a corrupt alternative that would appeal to those who were less capable, which turned values inside …

…by a superior opponent becomes internalized as the self-generated sense of guilt, and individual conscience places severe limits on the normal exercise of human desire. Therefore, the fundamental self-betrayal of the human race is to submit its freedom to the fictitious demands of an imaginary god. Afraid to live by the strength of our own wills, we invent religion as a way of generating and then explaining our perpetual sense of being defeated in life.