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When I score a point, praise me. When I can’t, scold me. I don’t need a ‘try hard’ award…
…Either praise or scold me, that’s fine. I just want to be in one of those categories…
These are the inner thoughts of Atsumu Miya from ‘Haikyuu!!’: Confronting Defeat
Due to the conveniences of human society, rather than the fabricated ‘good and evil’ of each circumstance, one should adhere to the principles of nature. In this, the strong are not necessarily beautiful, nor are the weak.
Since childhood, I often felt unfulfilled even when talking with friends. This was because most of the conversations between friends were filled with ‘lies’ and ‘pretenses’ that were indoctrinated by consensus. This hasn’t changed even now that I’m an adult.
In work, I hope to meet people who will teach me real wisdom, not ‘lies’ or ‘pretenses’, but ‘this is how it really is’. However, I seldom come across such people. When I ask probing questions that delve into the painful aspects of their industry to understand true wisdom, many become somewhat excited and wield the ‘morality’ of ‘good and evil’, which leaves me exhausted.
I’ve recently come to feel that ‘morality’ is an act to protect one’s own weak self by justifying one’s mediocre life. Nietzsche, in ‘On the Genealogy of Morals’, insightfully observes that ‘morality’ has been exploited to tantalize the overwhelming majority of weak ressentiment towards the strong.
Observing society with an open mind and removing ‘lies’ and ‘pretenses’, one realizes that the strong are beautiful and the wealthy are good. However, to dominate the overwhelming majority of the weak, the strong and the wealthy, with deliberate intent, overturn the values, claiming that the weak are beautiful and the wealthy are evil.
Whether you were born under the dominion of the strong and wealthy and wish to maintain that status, or if you were not born under their rule but still aspire for success, you need to act, not based on ‘lies’ or ‘pretenses’, but based on the reality mentioned above that no one else will tell you.
Even Einstein’s belief in the eternal unchangeability of the universe was overturned by the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. In 1924, Hubble observed that beyond the ‘Milky Way Galaxy’, there existed similar clusters of stars called ‘galaxies’. Furthermore, Hubble observed that most ‘galaxies’ appeared to be moving away from the ‘Milky Way Galaxy’.
Moreover, the farther the ‘galaxy’, the faster it seemed to be moving away, in proportion to the distance. What does this mean?
If we assume that the ‘galaxies’ are moving away from the ‘Milky Way Galaxy’, we could hypothetically propose that the ‘Milky Way Galaxy’ is at the center of the universe. However, according to the ‘Cosmological Principle’, there is no special place in the universe, so the ‘Milky Way Galaxy’ cannot be considered the center of the universe.
So what if not only the ‘Milky Way Galaxy’, but every ‘galaxy’ is observed to be moving away from each other at speeds proportional to their distances?
For the above hypothesis to hold, the entire space of the universe must be expanding.
For example, when a bread with raisins expands, no matter which raisin you look at, the other raisins appear to move away. Moreover, if everything expands at the same rate, raisins farther away will move even farther in the same amount of time, at speeds proportional to the distance.
Likewise, in the universe, the same thing happens, and this idea, akin to bread with raisins, has become the prevailing theory even today.
The term ‘natural law,’ frequently used in later works by Soseki Natsume. I love this term, and I’ve become accustomed to thinking in terms of ‘natural law’ when considering the causes and predictions of events. When considering the operation of ‘natural law’, just as the universe expands over time, the disparity between the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, continues to widen.
First and foremost, refrain from discussing ‘moral theories’ such as ‘good and evil’. I remember feeling disappointed when both a professor I respected during my university days and the boss I worked under part-time at the same time told me, “Do a job that you wouldn’t mind if it were done to your own family.” At that time, I couldn’t articulate why I was disappointed, but I do remember intuitively feeling, ‘This is not right.’
‘Moral theories’ are correct whether spoken by a child, a NEET, or a CEO. That they are correct no matter who speaks them is precisely what makes them dull.
It’s a well-known fact that black companies often espouse ‘moral’ and noble ideals. However, not only are these ideals not upheld in reality, they often backfire, a fact that is evident in society.
Do not trust those who passionately espouse ‘moral theories’.”