Tuesday July 23rd

Today's topic was nietzche's gay science. I think what he was trying to say was that a new age of science was being introduced, and that it was replacing religion. The herd only follows, it is the leader that makes the transition, and that is the madman's job. I believe that in order for science to fully replace religion people must rethink their morality, but to rethink one's morality is to let go of one's humanity. I believe this explains how people's ideas and perspectives change, it takes a leader to guide them out of simple though and to expand their minds. During this time period a new way of understanding the world was coming, and this new understanding would free people, it would allow them to do and be whatever they wanted rather than being a slave to their current beliefs. The madman's job was to guide them out.