 You know you're saying that the way of men is a moral these tactical virtues because they're just survival virtues but you know what you're actually talking about is Nietzsche's master morality and You know I looked into it a little bit and master morality is how Nietzsche articulated the mindset and the worldview of powerful people Barbarians knights aristocrats nobles Then who believed in themselves in their own worth They weren't worried about what was fair and they weren't worried about social justice They cared about themselves and their people They cared about living and exerting their own strength and winning Now master morality. It's not exactly the same as a masculinity. It does overlap a good bit But I think Nietzsche's concept of a master morality of pre-moral Nobility as he also called it is a useful way to think about how to live a more masculine life So we're gonna talk about some of the concepts that are involved in his idea of nobility, you know first there are two opposing ideas master morality or nobility and what he called slave morality and I don't think master and slave are a really good way to talk about this in the modern world We don't really have slaves in the first world and You know it upsets a lot of people. I don't think it I can be an abstraction So I think it's better to talk about it in terms of what is noble and what is anti-noble and Even Nietzsche believe that we all have a little bit of each of these things you know it's kind of competing for real estate in our head and So, you know, we just want to talk about how to you know bring out the best the most noble instincts and Suppress the things that make us behave, you know in an anti-noble way All right, but before before we talk any more about Nietzsche. I need to make a point that Nietzsche was just a man He's just a fucking guy He's just like me. He's a self-published author You know, he actually said politically incorrect things and was un unhierable in his lifetime after being very successful very early on and You know, but he's just a guy and so when people They had the one philosophy course in college or maybe they're a philosophy professor and they'll tell you you're well You're misusing Nietzsche. You're misunderstanding what he really meant. This isn't what he really wanted us to do And my answer to that is I don't care I'm gonna take what I find in Nietzsche and use it In a way that I think is best You know because Nietzsche is just a guy he didn't have everything figured out I think he was wrong about some things and You know, we're not following him like the Bible and so you don't have to say like you figure out what Nietzsche really meant You know, I studied him a good bit and I think that you can just take what you you need and That's really the fucking point is that You know masters make their own values. I choose what's good and you know, according to Nietzsche, that is what masters do They make the values. They aren't looking for an external source of values someone to tell them what is good and what is evil they Say, you know because it comes from inside It's this is good and this is bad because I said so and here's a quote from him about it He said that every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands And so what it really means is that you know, again, these values are creative. They come from us and External values the anti-noble values are a reaction to something else like someone has something They're oppressing me and so they're I'm gonna I'm gonna be different. I'm gonna be good because they're oppressing me and I'm different from them It's a way to kind of make yourself feel better And you know masters really don't have time for that Another quote from him the aristocrats get some system of values it acts and grows spontaneously It merely seeks its antithesis in order to pronounce a more grateful and exultant. Yes to its own self It's negative conception. What is low and vulgar and bad? It's merely a pale late-born foil in comparison with its positive and fundamental conception saturated as it is with life and passion of We aristocrats we good ones we beautiful ones we happy ones and that brings me to something that I like to call the noble equation