But I asked once, and suffocated almost with my question: What? is the rabble also NECESSARY for life?
Zarathustra confesses that enmity and torture-crosses did not choke him as much as the question whether the rabble are needed. He describes living deaf and blind, holding his nose, to avoid the power-, scribe- and pleasure-rabble.
- Sickness, convalescence and the great disgustThe loathing that nearly suffocates him is a sickness of disgust at the small and common, which he must overcome.
- The herd, the rabble, the many-too-manyHe sees the rabble in power, in scribbling and in pleasure, and shuns them all.