The herd doesn't conspire. It doesn't need to. It simply is selecting automatically, structurally, relentlessly for what is compatible with the herd.
The last man from Thus Spoke Zarathustra – It's the end point of this process, the perfected mediocre human. These people seek only comfort and contentment.
They don't really have a creative drive. He blinks and says, "Mhm, we have invented happiness." He's the most fit.
And the mechanism by which the last man comes to dominate, it's the same mechanism by which fittest became best. Language.
Language is the instrument. It communicates, again, the thing that's common, that can be exchanged, what can be understood by everyone. That singular thing, whatever — it can't be translated, is in Klossowski's terms condemned to muteness. Not because the world refuses it, but because the singular thinks itself through institutional signs. Your inner life, even your inner life is conducted in the language of the species.
The last man from Thus Spoke Zarathustra – It's the end point of this process, the perfected mediocre human. These people seek only comfort and contentment.
They don't really have a creative drive. He blinks and says, "Mhm, we have invented happiness." He's the most fit.
And the mechanism by which the last man comes to dominate, it's the same mechanism by which fittest became best. Language.
Language is the instrument. It communicates, again, the thing that's common, that can be exchanged, what can be understood by everyone. That singular thing, whatever — it can't be translated, is in Klossowski's terms condemned to muteness. Not because the world refuses it, but because the singular thinks itself through institutional signs. Your inner life, even your inner life is conducted in the language of the species.