Agency Is a Demonstration of Successful Will to Power

Jan 27, 2020, 6:07 AM

—“I struggle with Agency… Someone who goes to the gym regularly because they want to be buff and ripped would be said to be exercising agency. An alignment of desire and rational action / persistence. However, is a gambler exercising agency when they gamble on the daily? Or is agency simply contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”– Gary Knight

In simple terms:

—“contentiousness bearing fruit against a declared aim?”–

Yes.

Although, in most cases, gambling regularly is a form of self medication, it is true that people win, and you can’t play if you don’t win. And it’s simply an expensive means of entertainment. And whether entertainment or medication can lead to addiction, which is the very opposite of agency.

Agency is the sum total of that which leads you to independent action in fulfillment of your ambitions – overcoming (‘overman’) the physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, social, economic, political, military, and knowledge, impediments to a desired end.

Will to power is an inspiration.

Agency is its demonstration.

Omniscience and Omnipotence are it’s ends.

The transcendence of man into the gods we imagine.