Why the Herd Will Always Betray You | Nietzsche

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It was 1997. My dad was suffering from congestive heart failure, and he only had months to live. I stood over him, sullen and brokenhearted, ready to forgive the years of abuse and neglect he had made me endure my entire life. Out of nowhere, he sat up in his bed and scolded me:


“You f*ED up in school, boy.”


I knew why he said that. I had been escorted off campus for yelling at someone in the middle of psychology class. I even had to go to court over it. That guilt stuck with me—until I discovered a trade school program.


It was a difficult course (NT Technology), but I ended up graduating at the top of my class. Later, I went on to study engineering. The point is, I never knew I was capable of doing anything. I was always told I was stupid. But I discovered that if I just applied myself, I would be fine.


It turned out that during exams, everyone in class was sitting next to me. I was giving answers to everyone. I was king of the hill—until...


Her name was Patty. She was loud and belligerent in class, bragging about her sexual escapades over the weekend. She was disruptive and unprofessional, and sometimes she would even break down crying. I asked her politely if she could be quiet when everyone was trying to concentrate. In retaliation, she slandered me to everyone in the school.


Everybody took what she said as truth, while my dumbass believed people would see her behavior for what it was and ignore her. Instead, everybody started treating me like kuso at that trade school—even my fellow Black men, and for that I say shame on you.


Everybody in the school knew she didn’t belong there. However, like the herd mentality discussed in that video, everybody went along with her at face value. Nevertheless, the burning image of my dad stuck in my head, and I pushed through it.


I graduated, but nobody contacted me to attend the ceremony. It sat with me for a while, but eventually I ended up getting a job through a friend. Still, on the last day of class...
A classmate approached me and congratulated me on my triumph. I told him about my dad, and how I was doing it for him, since he had died the year before. He told me about Patty and apologized, saying, “She’s a loser.”


I was angry, because this revealed the herd mentality to me. He knew what she did was wrong, but because he wanted to maintain her status in society, he went along with the herd. I was bitter for years, because it seemed like I would always lose jobs over some narcissist that everybody in the herd was in love with.


Until it hit me.


King Yahawashi said:
“Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”
— Matthew 13:30 (KJV)


Later on, John 15:19 (KJV) stuck in my head. That verse slowly gave me peace, because The Most High allowed me to be rejected by everybody—because He chose me.


I grew up facing racism, with an alcoholic and abusive dad (who tried to kill me once by scrubbing myy mouth with comet) , and sisters who threw me under the bus and screamed at me. But still, I’m here—determined to finish everything I start. He chose me, like He chose Joseph.


What Father Yah is trying to tell us is this: most people don’t even have an inner monologue. So many of us are walking through a world full of NPC characters.


Forget the herd. Be proud to be among the chosen.


All praises to The Most High!


“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
— John 15:19 (KJV)