I have a friend who is very self-destructive. And I know enough about our own brokenness to understand why. But some times his acts are so self-destructive that they boggle my mind. And then Peter Rollins went and offered an interesting take on an old movie, The Bridges of Madison County. And in it he mentioned the quote from Nietzsche.
“we still prefer a more violent displeasure to a weak pleasure.” Nietzsche
I can’t help but see this in my friend and in the world. But here’s why. It is so easy to reach a state of numb complacency or even self-hatred for what we have become that we must resort to a violent displeasure to wake us up. A weak pleasure just won’t do it. Violence can then feed us even as it destroys us. An in a very strange way the very act that is design to destroy us can often be the very act that saves us too.
What do you think?
