09/02/2024
For The Greater Good
Ive been rewatching "Hero's" a TV series from Marvel It's not part of the Marvel Universe. "For the greater good, " Utilitarianism," popularized by Mills, is combined with Nietzsche's existentialism. It turns both on their heads but makes for a popular understanding of both in today's culture. Hero's and anti-hero's alike use the phrase to support their actions, good or evil. In the TV series, Adam (I wonder if these a connection to the Adam in the bible), an anti-hero, wants to release a deadly virus to kill 93% of the population, for tghe greater good. Why, to save the planet for all the enviromental reasons and man's inhumanity to man. In the Marvel Universe, Thanos, an anti-hero, wants to destroy half the population for the greater good. In on the way series the hero's want "to save the world," for the greater good.
Both hero and anti-hero are the result of a long process of evolution, physical and intellectual.
Tomorrow, my topic will be "a long obiedience in the same direction. This is a quote from Nietzsche not Eugene Peterson's book
