On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3:10:37 AM UTC, palsing wrote:


― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

You show traits of an old Nazi as they leaned heavily on this guy, a sort of ChrisB of the 19th century who created a lot of noise at the expense of those who practice Christianity at a communal level by going to Church, celebrating festivals, participating in milestones and so on. Even the theorist who spent part of his life mocking his notion of God recently ended up with a Church service and a burial.

https://wilsonquarterly.com/quarterl...and-the-nazis/

The idea of ubermensch/untermensch filtered through late 17th century 'enlightenment' doctrine that humanity is driven by strife and aggression was never dealt with after WWII as these doctrines escaped from behind of walls of universities and into the political realm -

” A lopsided education has helped to encourage that illusion. Man must realize that a fundamental law of necessity reigns throughout the whole realm of Nature and that his existence is subject to the law of eternal struggle and strife. He will then feel that there cannot be a separate law for mankind in a world in which planets and suns follow their orbits, where moons and planets trace their destined paths, where the strong are always the masters of the weak and where those subject to such laws must obey them or be destroyed.” Hitler

Better not to dwell on these things but that empiricism is as aggressive and ineffective as ever despite running out of road is turning people off science or viewing science as just another subculture with a political agenda.