User:Somdomite/Fluffy Bunnies or Nietzsche

Are bunnies and Nietzsche compatible?

With superficial knowledge of rabbits you could easily claim that they live a Dionysian life. A closer look at their behavior shows their true nature.

A rabbit at a typical Euclidean cataclysm.

There are times when a thinker has to remember the fundamental truth of any system of philosophy: you can’t eat the cake and save it. It has been shown, since the days of Aristotle, that at times you need to choose one thing or the other. Like Søren Kierkegaard (the “aa” is pronounced like the first and the second “o” in the word “gonorrhea”, only omit the “n” between them) wrote in his most famous book Either/Or, there are only two alternatives. The author of the article Fluffy Bunnies as the saviours of infrastructure boldly states that bunnies - or rabbits - are the panacea of the contemporary issues concerning the basic tasks and the future of mankind. Yes, you can find bunnies attractive from the Nietzschean point of view. Aren’t they beyond good and evil? Even though he doesn't carry a whip or a cane, a male bunny can treat his lady well. Bunnies feel no remorse when they are eating your lettuces, destroying your apple trees, or shitting on your backyard - but the fundamental question is if that is truly enough for the Dionysian lifestyle propagated by Nietzsche.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche N.B: Fluffy moustache is not common among bunnies. Compare to the image at the upper right!

One can safely say that a bunny, how fluffy it may be, is never an Apollonian creature. It doesn’t waste its time on quasi-intellectual moral philosophy – Immanuel Kant and the rabbit are mutually exclusive. But there are never - and let me make myself clear - enough existential questions in their brain to fill a tea spoon. Yes, they have the frenzy of eating and erotic pleasure, but it is done behind the façade of night and darkness. No wonder that the Victorian writers liked to write books about rabbits: they committed their sins wrapped in the cloak of night, or a foot deep under your lawn.

That is not the Dionysian life Nietzsche taught us. The boldness, true heroism, and sense of superiority are absent in the kingdom of bunnies. They may be immoral, but they are very shy ones at that. To live in caves in the backyards of bourgeoisie and wealthy craftsmen represents no higher standard of mentality.

Because of the very nature of fluffy bunnies, they may save the infrastructure physically, but it is mentally and philosophically fallacious to believe in them as true saviors.

So the question is: it's either fluffy bunnies or Nietzsche. Do you rely on living animals or dead philosphers?