Everyone in this room is inspired by you. Who inspires you?
Elon Musk: Kanye West, obviously.
Kanye West: Anything in life that you set your mind to, you can do, right?
Elon Musk: That is probably my core skill.
Manifest destiny was Nietzsches philosophy played out in reality
The West was not a country waiting to be inherited. It was Nietzsche’s thought set loose on the land: the will to power walking out of the old moral house, past the last church and the last fence, into a country that had never consented to be tamed.
There the good and the evil of Europe grew thin. What remained was strength, weather, distance, and the man who could bear them. The plains did not ask whether he was righteous. The mountains did not ask whether he was kind. The rivers rose, the winters closed, the grass burned, and the peoples already there met him as the earth meets whatever tries to cross it
with arrow, hunger, and refusal. He did not conquer by innocence. He conquered by enduring, by returning after loss, by laying road and rail and town over what had been only wind. Beyond good and evil the horizon kept receding, and each mile won was a sentence the old world could not finish
that life justifies itself not by permission, but by the hand that holds the ground after the storm has passed, and calls that holding victory.
Manifest destiny was Nietzsches philosophy played out in reality
The West was not a country waiting to be inherited. It was Nietzsche’s thought set loose on the land: the will to power walking out of the old moral house, past the last church and the last fence, into a country that had never consented to be tamed.
There the good and the evil of Europe grew thin. What remained was strength, weather, distance, and the man who could bear them. The plains did not ask whether he was righteous. The mountains did not ask whether he was kind. The rivers rose, the winters closed, the grass burned, and the peoples already there met him as the earth meets whatever tries to cross it
with arrow, hunger, and refusal. He did not conquer by innocence. He conquered by enduring, by returning after loss, by laying road and rail and town over what had been only wind. Beyond good and evil the horizon kept receding, and each mile won was a sentence the old world could not finish
that life justifies itself not by permission, but by the hand that holds the ground after the storm has passed, and calls that holding victory.