DIY Ubermenschen

“[T]he strongest find their happiness where others meet with their ruin; in the labyrinth, in hardness towards themselves and others, in endeavour; their delight is self-mastery: with them asceticism becomes a second nature, a need, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as their privilege; to play burdens which crush their fellows is to them a recreation.”*

I bet all the eggheads in academia still haven’t figured out that Nietzsche was really writing about DIY Housebloggers; the man was truly ahead of his time.

Also, according to Nietzsche, all the masses of mediocre, sub-par track housing serves an essential purpose; it makes the rest of us look good by comparison. Okay, maybe I paraphrasing that a little too much; I think it actually makes us some sort of aristocratic elite. Okay, maybe I’m still paraphrasing, but I’m pretty sure that both “aristocratic” and “elite” appear somewhere in the text.

Did I mention that my wife says arrogance is one of my flaws?

Anyhow, the next time you find yourself facing cataclysmic foundation failure, five or six figures of debt, wood rot, termites, code violations, and whatever other visitor from the myriad world of home disasters, remember that playing with burdens which crush others is a recreation. I am sure that will make you feel better. Come on, repeat after me, “recreation.” See, don’t you feel empowered already? I know I do: Today the Devil Queen, tomorrow the world!

* Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist