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Higher Goals Are Integrally Associated With Ethics
If the world isn't unfolding in front of you in a manner that you find acceptable it's certainly possible that what you're aiming at is wrong. In order for us to develop value valuation systems we have to take our own nature into account and I also think that's a good antidote to utopian thinking. Nietzsche thought well we should generate our own values and Carl Jung came along and said yeah but wait a second we can't because we actually have a biological nature expressed in these archetypal structures in these great stories we have. We might be able to cooperate with ourselves to move in a certain direction but I don't think you can tyrannize yourself without rebelling any more than you can tyrann