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There are no 'men-in-themselves' such as the philosophers talk about, but only men of a time, of a locality, of a race, of a personal cast, who contend in battle with a given world and win through or fail, while the universe around them moves slowly on with a godlike unconcern. This battle is life — life, indeed, in the Nietzschean sense, a grim, pitiless, no-quarter battle of the Will-to-Power.

it's an old topic, yes. it has only worsened, yes. it is not Current Thing related except tangentially, yes.

and to (you) fren; sage me a river, if you think it will help.