Nietzsche unfortunately seemed to fall prey very much the temptation of pride and egotism, imagining them, certainly at times, to be the greatest of virtues rather than the very wrong spiritual path - though this reaction of contempt to a very fallen world around one, the world of “the rabble” in Nietzschean terms, is a very natural and powerful temptation. Self-protection from the grasp of “the world” is necessary, but there’s more to the spirit than one’s relationship to the world, and if one ends up virtually defined by one’s contempt for it, then that’s a parody and horror in itself. And perhaps these kinds of dynamics led Nietzsche to rejection of humility whilst exalting the proud ego, having a title of a book like Why I Am So Wise, and ultimately losing his sanity, and tellingly even signing letters “the crucified one.”
Anyway, Nietzsche still could be a man of great gifts and insight, and I really just wanted to post something I saw from Nietzsche on the imaginative projections of European academics that comprise the supposedly rational formulas of socialism - and towards which realisation we should all of course devotedly aspire:
Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word “justice” into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason… and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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