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Under the One, much seems unimportant and inconsequential; experience becomes flattened and interchangeable. It seems the only way to get excited, make your mark, or demonstrate your individuality and uniqueness is to seek out experiences others haven’t had due to an investment not everyone can afford.
The One is an expression of what Nietzsche calls slave morality: a race to the bottom, the common, the same, the secure, the stable, the guaranteed. The One is both the expression of a people’s disposition as well as part of the explanation of this disposition. It is symptom and cause: these intertwine together.
Nietzsche’s slave morality isn’t merely an ethical proposition or an ethical proposition backed by an ontological claim (will-to-power); it’s onto-ethical.[1]
[1] Deleuze, Difference & Repetition: Deleuze illustrates this through thermodynamics, common sense, and the basic sensibility in how we perceive any given thing.