Community - "Guilt," "Bad Conscience," And The Like”
Nietzsche explains, “the community stands to its members in that important and radical relationship of creditor to his "owers." Man lives in a community, man enjoys the advantages of a community (and what advantages! we occasionally underestimate them nowadays), man lives protected, spared, in peace and trust, secure from certain injuries and enmities, to which the man outside the community, the "peaceless" man, is exposed.” Communal relationships foster bonds and peaceful relationships among human beings. Being a member of a community is desirable for it accords one social support that would contribute to a rewarding experience. Excommunication from a community is difficult for it means that the excommunicated individual is an enemy of a community. Survival outside a solid communal is difficult, and thus one should uphold the community codes to be at peace with other community members.
Music - “What Is The Meaning Of Ascetic Ideals?”
Nietzsche elucidates, “This extraordinary rise in the value of music (a rise which seemed to grow out of the Schopenhauerian philosophy) was at once accompanied by an unprecedented rise in the estimation in which the musician himself was held: he became now an oracle, a priest, nay, more than a priest, a kind of mouthpiece for the "intrinsic essence of things," a telephone from the other world—from henceforward he talked not only music.” Music’s value increases due to its effectiveness in relaying messages to the audiences. The musician is the medium through which music is spread; hence, he is elevated to a superior rank of a priest. Musicians are comparable to priests due to their dedication to music; they sing with determination in the same way that a priest upholds religious ideals with zeal.
The Church - "Good And Evil," "Good And Bad."
Nietzsche writes, “the Church nowadays any necessary purpose?...It seems that it fetters and retards this tendency, instead of accelerating it... The Church certainly is a crude and boorish institution, that is repugnant to an intelligence with any pretence at delicacy, to a really modern taste. Should it not at any rate learn to be somewhat more subtle? It alienates nowadays, more than it allures. Which of us would, forsooth, be a freethinker if there were no Church? It is the Church which repels us, not its poison—apart from the Church we like the poison." The church does not accommodate modernism; hence, its materiality in people’s lives is questionable, Due to rigid philosophies (which are equivalent to poison) encourage the estrangement of individuals with divergent views. The church restrains believers through its dogmas which disheartens independent-minded and queer individuals from being members. Accordingly, the church should revaluate its philosophies so they will be in line with the modern environment.
