Chew on this.
No individual will rest satisfied with a conquest that fails to secure the conscious acknowledgement of other men. Hence there is a struggle for both power and recognition. In this struggle some will take greater risks than their competitiors. Those who risk the least will become slaves or bondsman of those who face death by risking their lives. In order to preserve his life the slave submits to the master, who regards the slave as nothing but a means to his own designs. The slave is forced to work whereas the master can enjoy leisure in the knowledge that the slave is reshaping the natural world in order to provide his products of his labor for the master to consume. Thus the master's leisure protects him from the experience of the negativity of nature, where as the slave, in struggling with nature's recalcitrance, learns it's secrets and puts mind into it. The master, in consuming, destroys, the slave , in working creates. But the master's consumption depends on the slaves work and thus is impermanent, whereas the slave's labor passes into things which slaves work and is thus impermanent, whereas the slave's labor passes into things which have a permanent existence. Hegel argues too that slaves work in transforming the natural world is a consequence of his fear of the master, who can kill him. Death is overcome by the works of civilization. The man who risks his life and becomes the first master breaks the bond of nature and starts the process which will incorporate mind into it.
On a lighter note, I made a trip to the cd store and picked up a copy of Down, Phil's side band, and the album is pretty nice. I especially like a song on there called Jail, which to me, is reminiscient of the musical style of the song called Planet Caravan. I also picked up a copy of the String Quartet's covers of Black Sabbath tunes, which I believe is the same group that covered Tool's work.
On a lighter note, I made a trip to the cd store and picked up a copy of Down, Phil's side band, and the album is pretty nice. I especially like a song on there called Jail, which to me, is reminiscient of the musical style of the song called Planet Caravan. I also picked up a copy of the String Quartet's covers of Black Sabbath tunes, which I believe is the same group that covered Tool's work.