"Life is strange...you study to get a job and when you can there is no job," so says Cécile.
Well I guess it's the same everywhere in the world. There seems to be no running away from the grim reality wherever one goes.
On another note, I still don't get why alot of people find Nietzsche's philosophy outrageous. I mean, I can understand the logic behind what he says, and I find myself agreeing to some of his ideas. Perhaps I've been influenced by The Fountainhead, since Ayn Rand basically wrote the entire book based on Nietzsche's philosophy. I think the book is fast becoming my favourite book of all time. Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World and Fynn's Mister God, This is Anna are finally dethroned (for years these three have been at the top of my personal best book ever list).
OK, all you Nietzsche haters, feel free to come crucify me. But before you do that, first ask yourself how many times have you felt wronged by someone and being unable to fight back, you simply decided that forgiveness is what you should do. Not because you truly think that it's the best to forgive, but because there is simply nothing else you can do about it. So yes, I agree with Nietzsche that the concept of morality was invented by the weak as a way to justify and take revenge against those whom they cannot win - the stronger and more powerful. I really do think that we need more Howard Roarks and fewer Ellsworth Tooheys in the world.
"But this was pity - this complete awareness of a man without worth or hope, this sense of finality, of the not to be redeemed. There was shame in this feeling - his own shame that he should have to pronounce such judgment upon a man, that he should know an emotion which contained no shred of respect. This is pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue." - The Fountainhead
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