Isn't "maturity" essentially just a form of slave morality?
Why is slave morality bad, are you like a moralist or sum' m?
Not necessarily. There are plenty of qualities related to maturity that are useful for an independent and self reliant man, like the ability to control emotions and the capacity to chose delayed gratification. Even general acceptance of things that can't be changed.
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no. But I just don't take it to heart when I am called immature. I think there is a certain authenticity in immaturity which is lost in the self-imposed spooky idealization and self-delusion of adulthood. Am I supposed to be really impressed by your attempt t tell yourself your not a cockroach by spending your precious time building a shack in Africa that you would deign to live inside of for a month? Adults are basically ugly chldren that can dissimulate.
>The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his *interest*, not according to his *ideals*, becomes confirmed.
>So long as one knows himself only as *spirit*, and feels that all the value of his existence consists in being spirit (it becomes easy for the youth to give his life, the "bodily life," for a nothing, for the silliest point of honor), so long it is only *thoughts* that one has, ideas that he hopes to be able to realize some day when he has found a sphere of action; thus one has meanwhile only *ideals*, unexecuted ideas or thoughts.
>Not till one has fallen in love with his *corporeal* self, and takes a pleasure in himself as a living flesh-and-blood person – but it is in mature years, in the man, that we find it so – not till then has one a personal or *egoistic* interest, i.e. an interest not only of our spirit, e. g., but of total satisfaction, satisfaction of the whole chap, a *selfish* interest. Just compare a man with a youth, and see if he will not appear to you harder, less magnanimous, more selfish. Is he therefore worse? No, you say; he has only become more definite, or, as you also call it, more "practical." But the main point is this, that he makes *himself* more the center than does the youth, who is infatuated about other things, e.g. God, fatherland, etc.
>Therefore the man shows a *second* self-discovery. The youth found himself as *spirit* and lost himself again in the *general* spirit, the complete, holy spirit, Man, mankind – in short, all ideals; the man finds himself as *embodied* spirit.
>Boys had only *unintellectual* interests (i.e. interests devoid of thoughts and ideas), youths only *intellectual* ones; the man has bodily, personal, egoistic interests.
