Nietzsche was to uncover the dogmas

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Adept at dropping, lobbing, heading, kicking or otherwise projecting a ball into or over a net or hole, or those who are lucky enough to chose the right combination of numbers in a lottery, or those who are given financial reward for "hurt feelings" or loss of a job whereby the compensation for job loss is based on the money earned at the job in question, not on the worth of the individual concerned as a citizen, a or worker, proof if proof is needed, of how much more important the financial pecking order is in Western society to its much flouted equity and democracy.

For Schopenhauer, this fact was at the core of the absurdity of life. All virtues are no more than "tricks" created by nature to compel us to continue to strive to live. Apart from the confusion of "life" as an phone number list abstract with life in the specific circumstances of late nineteenth century Europe, there is another problem with Schopenhauer's thesis. If life is ultimately irrational on the grounds that nature provides no rational for the end of power but only for the acquisition and maintaining of it.

On the other hand the means by which life is maintained and developed by nature are rational. Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest as the dynamo of species development points not only to the ruthlessness of nature but also to its extreme rationality. The conundrum is: how can the rational arrangement of nature from say, species camouflage to the incentive to reproduce to the "tools" with which nature equips her children to survive, the claws of the lion, the long tongue of the bee, the adaptability of the virus, be reconciled to the irrationality of the whole?