This essay is clearly riddled with binary conflicts of many sorts (one has even contaminated the title.) The most striking binary, if it can be seen in that light, exists between the assumed intention and exposure achieved in creating this piece versus the mere fact that its existence relies on the human constructs (lies, in this sense) that it intends to denounce. Nietzsche, as he his is a demonstratively intelligent thinker, places instances of sarcasm or contextualization to take care of this issue. “The proudest man of all, the philosopher believes he sees the eyes of the universe focused…upon his actions and thoughts.” (246) This is just one of the few rhetorical safety mechanisms delicately placed throughout the piece that while placing the essay in a certain context, also create a safe-haven of sorts for its author through his demonstrated understanding of the situation. I see a possible resolution to this binary starting with exposure/recognition of the conflict (i.e. this essay) with the further understanding of the fact that although these social mechanisms (words) exist under “false” pretenses, they are indeed helpful for communication between thinking things. This essay is, among many things, a strange support of the self-centering of the world. For if we are to follow this authors logic, all of the constructs or connection to Forms that rely on a fundamentally faulty foundation are not universally valid, but the translation of pure thought in Nietzsche’s head (something possibly, god forbid, in-itself) to the shaky metaphors that are words is reliant upon these words creating some mutually truthful situation. The word based question “What is a word?”(248) never before seemed so complicated.
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I really respect your creative approach to choosing a binary. Rather than being restricted to analyzing the content, you looked at the form as well and brought up a very interesting point. He seems to be acknowledging the importance of language and "truth" as a necessity not only for survival in the most general way but also in terms of communication. So along with the many qualifiers he throws in to protect his literature, he also seems to be using his work in the formal (word/language) way to qualify this drastic and rather bleak redefinition of truth and reality.
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