Zarathustra sleeps until noon waking with the revelation that he need not carry the dead but instead encourage the living to aspire to become his companions on this journey to surpass man. Z acknowledges the futility of speaking to the herd as a whole but instead notes that individually he is likely to be more successful. Later he describes himself as a farmer with much to harvest but with too few tools to facilitate this.
Many may consider him a thief in particular the herdsmen such as the moral and the establishment. Both types of individuals are resistant and respond agressively to non-conformists and those that encourage individuality. Z see's himself as an artist or creative individual in need of companions to help carve out a new value base. He looks also for those able reap also but acknowledges they will be considered those that hold morality in contempt.
Z speaks to his dead burden one last time noting it should rest in peace in that hollow tree in light of this revelation. Z stipulates he is no grave digger here to bury burdens or failures and he is no aspiring moralist or new establishment [ready to consolidate power]. Z's calling is to show those willing to create, rejoice and reap the superman and consequently mans potential. Z notes he will leap over those unwilling to move forward or progress in good time in mans [this is after all a group venture] assent toward greatness. In that way he will achieve what they do not and they will suffer as a consequence.
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