In “On Truth and Lying in a Non-moral Sense”, Nietzsche argues and denounces the arrogance of humankind. He believes  intellectualization is merely a veil over experiences, nature and the essence of reality. But as human nature entails a supposed intellectual predisposition, how could experience of existence not hang on a thread? Especially if it concerns assumptions. Language is a force field for the “most unfortunate” but the beauty of critical judgement lies in knowing a higher truth that may be discernible, not just annotated as a mere observation, but lived (p.752). 

This essay strikes a cord, a personal wonder of what it means to truly process life and develop a means of processing. What is information, when recounted truly, in the essence that Nietzsche notes? Furthermore, how can one’s lived experience count as an honest reflection when shared? Does it align with the reality of the experience? is it relatable? When the illogical is tinged with the essence of the metaphor, as Nietzsche explains, done by many artists who recall the sharp pull of semantic language, but annotate the sense of knowing with creative intuition (p. 759). Is that why humorous tweets or brief poems explain volumes to the reader? Far from structured intellectualization, implied knowledge drives on a shared intuition, which is not calculated for responses. The intuition draws on resonating experiences that require such lived realities to react or recall from. That may be why humor or emotional poetry remain unquantifiable. The essence of the metaphor drives the understanding in collective awareness by language, but intuition does the heavy lifting to reach realness/truth. 

Nietzsche’s plight against the schema of hierarchical humans is a construct he seems to want overthrown, but also brought down to size for all those who oppose that possibility. The range of nature is a highlighted fortress of un-esteemed power by an anthropocene.

I believe Nietzsche’s plight is against the intellect rather than the development of language. The intellect’s demands for universal agreement, indisputable law, ultimately distorts the potential for truth. Language, alone, is the tool for community and communication. Those qualities that fuel references predate and exist with or without language, do not heed to language, but to an unfortunate all consumer strictly seeing in labels. It would be a singular discussion if this pattern of thinking weren’t beyond pronounced, prevailing all humanity’s discourse as the only universal truth tangible. The intellect exists in all who note reality only befitting by such descriptions, ruled by conceptual implications rather than by present processing is the escapism Nietzsche despises. “They are deeply immersed in illusions and dream-images, their eyes merely glide across the surface of things and see ‘forms’; nowhere does their perception lead to truth”(p.753).

Nietzsche’s arguments brings to mind Descartes’s centuries old campaign, “I think, therefore I am.” To process thoughts in conceptualization, self awareness beckons, submerging into calculation by means of agreed essence. You become what you think, how you process that language or behavior. But to maximize those internal experiences as absolute render damage to reality/nature.