It’s not a matter of vanity. It’s not a matter of “being too good” for something.

Some activities help you develop toward your own ideal.

Some activities lead you away from your own ideal. Too much of these activities can make you forget your ideal altogether.

The former is “edifying”. The latter is “degrading”.

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Some people have no ideal. They have likes and dislikes and map everything they hear about “destinies” and such back to mere preference for this or that.

Such people cannot understand why everyone shouldn’t just do what’s most useful.

Useful for what? Useful why? What’s being perpetuated?

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An esoteric maxim: “Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human.”

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It’s a shame that we’re too tired or degraded or busy to think — because if we were to think things out, we’d take thinking more seriously and refuse to be degraded to the point where thinking is no longer possible. “Indecent haste,” Nietzsche called it.

From within this haste only haste makes sense.