Revolution and Leadership

"If personalities do not make history, then history makes itself by means of personalities."
Trotsky

Nietzschean "history" is something like personalities making history...a story about the peaks of humanity, great men. What is the role of the personality? I tend to agree with Nietzsche and Trotsky in the respect that action does not take place as anonymity. A collection of "firsts among equals" will never do anything. Strong personalities become part of the myth out of which worlds are created, and, in some instances, the personality can be the entire myth.

Free Will?

I have been thinking about 'Free Will' and how the concept develops throughout our lives. Shouldn't we be able to maximize our opportunities if our lives(waking lives) were ruled by free will? Or does the mind create its own games to inhibit our personal freedoms? Among these games, I wonder how Schopenhauer justified the suggestion that in death, our free will is more pronounced (because the will to live is irrational during life)... Is that because, in death, our true free will is reflected upon through one's past intellectual imprints on the world/society?
So I need more research on Mr. Schopenhauer... I quickly reviewed
http://academics.vmi.edu/psy_dr/Schopenhauer.htm

ah, but I see that Schopenhauer thinks that we are denied of the will do do whatever we want- or so this website says... however, if you review this particular page - the author falsifies Hume without much evidence.... I will look for more sources on FREE WILL

Regarding Schopenhauer's theory that there are motives for all courses of human action, there is an element that is very similar to Freud's concepts of the unconscious mind... OK done for now

Original Sin

Euphoric desperation-- that storming river that has risen over its banks, that has consumed its banks, that forgets it was ever once contained. This destructive and darkest of the dark stars is the source of our aestheticized violence. Only humanity could muster the energy, accumulate the force, that is needed to destroy on this scale.

Seeing the space between us and ourselves is the first destruction. Since then we have vacillated between joy, despair, and joyous despair. Witness the petty and vengeful second nature of this beast that seeks to rectify the gulf it has torn within itself by tearing apart all of existence.