ower, wisdom and strength is revealed through acceptance of a nature outside man’s control, a cycle of season, ying and yang in the cosmos of life that cannot be altered, or controlled, but understood. Here nature changes man, and man gains power through acceptance of it.Now to tie the two ideas of power is to prove how similar their conclusion in practice can be. Let us pretend there are two men. The first man holds social power, the second a man of poverty holds wisdom, and let us say that the first man as gain what is thought to be part of a “select class of beings… able to elevate themselves to their higher duties, and in general to a higher existence” to Nietzsche and chooses to kill another man. The other man could be the second the poor man introduced above. Now the first man is happy, he has followed his will, his need to hate perhaps temporarily extinguished, he has killed without mourning, and killed in order to threaten others, and to climb closer into the light (e.g. “like those sun-seeking climbing plants in Java… called Sipo mataodr,”) and become the “complete man.” But if the roles had reversed and the first man had died, perhaps by the poor man’s accidentally and through self defense, then the second man would too find solace in following the way of Tao. The second man has followed the flux, and death and life again revolve. Being so close the nature, but never really becoming just energy, a both empty and fullness of Tao he struggles too, like the fist man to be fulfilled. The powerful man, though perhaps rich, perhaps an aristocrat, perhaps even the master in Nietzsche’s ideal, struggles with balance. He cannot be complete power, he cannot become god because man and beast divide his conscious and actions. So ironically both men suffer as well as prosper in trying to acclimate into more perfect beings.Nietzche believes that the world is broken...
