Its contribution to a 'sociology of knowledge' must often carry us far into the lugubrious regions of malice and the lie. If you wish to introduce a topic or keyterm or explore one, select the ADD button below, or read through the conversations already posted to this list by selecting the title of the note. And it's meant to be. That makes it even more insulting. And of course, that's just it.
Individual value is thus a function of one's utility for the herd.
One consequence of herd instincts is the mediocratization of humanity. The higher types are stifled, punished, blocked, repressed. Nietzsche mentions that when reformations fail, that means that heterogeneity is on the rise, that people are moving away from the herd instinct. If moral actions as such only receive their meaning from their utilitarian function within the herd, then the same is true for extra-moral actions. This is not what Nietzsche is after.