Quote: (02-19-2012 12:42 AM)Samseau Wrote:
What would you guys choose? Immortality, or man-whoring?
Immortality. Here's why:
Example: how many people know who Samuel Walton was? Sam Seelig? Horace Dodge? Maxime Weygand? Garfield (not the cat)? Cornelius Starr? Abrams?
Now: Patton? Caesar? JP Morgan? Carnegie? Ford?
Both were comfortable, influential, probably enjoyed life and lived doing what they loved, but one is a list of names, the other, a list of icons. They are remembered, they hold more influence now dead than I probably ever will being alive. That's real power, real success. You die, and everything you have ever done and everything you are and ever will be vanishes. It's nice, this life we have is, but the thought of passing and not even being remembered by more than a handful of people is downright depressing. Me, I'd rather die Erwin Rommel than live Lloyd Blankfein, if only to be able to say, "Yeah, I did it. What'd you do?"
Also Nietzsche was a genius. We see the concept of the ubermensch nowadays--it's closely entwined with the Alpha Male. Something to think about.