>Personal ambition is overrated, and we're actually just buying into the lies of Western culture that we have to become the Ubermensch to be happy.
Completely agreed. In actual fact, most such people aren't even real ubermenschen.
They have no mission, no true values of their own that they will impose on the world. Their ambitions are not only the small beer of rising in wealth but the zero-sum nonsense of rising in social status. Their dreams are forever confined to the cage of the established capitalist system. What's another dollar?
Many so-called ambitious professionals are just more self-deceiving pigs in human clothing.
I wish there were more frank expressions of beliefs that go against the status quo. I strongly agree with you, even as my core moral values and ambitions line very well up with the chase of my personal ambitions.
Personal ambition is overrated, and we're actually just buying into the lies of Western culture that we have to become the Ubermensch to be happy.
I struggle with this.