No Idiot ever goes Mad (Publisnhed In Article base.com,New York)
Dr Sudhansu Kumar
Dash
No idiot ever goes mad because to
go mad one must have a mind. A genius always walks on the edge of a sword as
a little mistake in the balance will
make him fall into an eternal darkness of madness. One of the most prolific genius that the world has
produced perhaps is Nietzsche who had so many insights that he had to change
the mode of his writings and they became
aphoristic. The reason is that the insights were crowding in his mind and if he
were to write something easy ,the other insights might be forgotten or lost
.This is the reason but to have too many insights at the same time is dangerous
and would turn one mad.
Nictzsche was confronted with an
infinite number of insights. His insight on love is that there is no question
of good or evil on love and love is beyond both. Some traditional ways of
writings are there and they have a
certain validity as one cannot misinterpret those works. Bertrand Russell in
his famous book ‘Principia Mathemetica ‘ has written two hundred sixty five
pages on a very simple thing. One can not conceive of it as to how could a man
write so many pages just to prove that two plus two is really four . To write so much on a simple thing
Russell has taken all possible consideration, questions and implications into
account to exhaust the subject so as to leave nothing for nobody .But Nietzsche
had no time as life is too short and his insights were so many. He, therefore
write his thoughts in a maxim as “love takes you beyond good and evil “If
certainly one loves one must not bother about good or evil.
Nietzche is definitely right,
dangerously right when one looks into
the implications of his statement. Long since love is accepted as the
synonymous with good and it is beyond any bad as love can never harm, can never
be violent. It can never be destructive but Nietzsche is far more right than
this traditional interpretation of love To think different is the function of a
genius mind, who has thought this that nobody has ever thought, to bring a new
glimpse onto the world. The thing is that he has not explained it.
No doubt good and bad are
opposite to one another and also that they exist together as light and
darkness, as life and death. If good is
thought to be synonymous with love then
evil will certainly follow it like a shadow It is that what happens everywhere,
The psycho analysts say one concept called ‘intimate enemy’ which means
whomsoever one loves is bound to hate him or her. Nothing unnatural therefore
is there about the fighting of the lovers because once one has chosen love the one part the other part that is the hate
must follow it just like two sides of the same coin.
Certainly our so called love is
not what Nietzsche means. To him, love is not addressed to anybody in
particular. It is just one’s aroma, one’s field of energy a, a perfume around.
That love is beyond good and evil, transcending the intrinsic contradiction of
the ordinary love. Nietzsche reaching to such height of understanding became
mad.
Vincent Van Gogh, one of the
great painters of Holland,, produced one of the greatest paintings of the
world. One who studies his painting would definitely get puzzled as one cannot
figure out his insight into the painting. Gogh painted one hundred years back
the stars to be spirals to which others commented him to be tending towards insanity.
One hundred years after the modern physicists with all sophisticated
instruments discovered the same thing that the stars are spirals what Gogh had
with his insight. What could Van Gogh do as he saw the stars star spirals?
A genius is always ahead of his time,
so no common mind could agree with him and therefore thought to be mad. The
remains of this great genius is a suicide that we indirectly forced him. He has
done no harm to us and the problem lies with us, with our judgment on him .Can
we not keep quiet than continuously going on judging others? The same thing
happened th Friedrich Nietzsche He was condemned by everybody as he said love
is beyond good and evil as people thought that there is something higher than
good that created a crisis for the
common man.
Lecturer in English
Shreedhara Swamy
college of Education and Technology
Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha,INDIA.
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