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I don't agree with most of these points. Especially for the issue of pursuing power, which brings zero new perspective in relation to society's dominant dogma of accumulating power, as capacity for domination and more empowerment. Power worship is at the core of capitalism, yet it is also a worshiping of dead potentialities (i.e. property, family/group capital, investments, etc), not living dynamics. The buildup of capacity, in opposition to the perceived social death that is losing. That is not a doctrine for those that negative society's bullshit institutions and values.

The adage that even CrimethInc repeated, that "we all are after power", is very problematic, as it is nothing else but echoing the dominant ideology in capitalist society. While this is hinting at Nietzsche's analysis, the latter was also analyzing people's sensibilities within the capitalist world, from a capitalist perspective. If you've studied even of basics of child development, you'll see it's not exactly what drives children in their growth. Rather pursuit of satisfying their desires, as well as curiosity, interest in the unknown. The pursuit of power is a way to twist those intents through the social programming, into a neverending quest for more power, yet it is unnatural. No non-human animal is after power.

Nietzsche in his better writings was rather, just as Schopenhauer, for a worshiping of LIFE, that is inherently an epicurian paradigm. We assert life against all conditions, negating the politics that seek to harm, bring down, exploit life (what the quest for power always does). Power is closer to death than life. Endless guarded parking lots in North America will prove that (or where have you been?), as parking lots are a reification of capitalist power, and not in any way paving the way for more life to happen (where they are actually based on a destruction of previous lives).

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