As a right-wing 'philosophy' blog would argue: Nietzsche isn't actually based - he never murdered anyone or womanized enough and, indeed, he makes far too many 'concessions'. In this fan-fictional image I suppose it makes sense to frame Nietzsche as indeed having this based political project if only to make the Youtuber look worse for it, placing the promise of true radicality in the hands of older configurations of philosophical education. The guilt-by-association strategy barely works with Nietzsche because of the cherry-picking necessary to 'uncover' the enemy - his library contained a work by an obscure French racist who translated the Book of Manu which Nietzsche uncritically followed as a good example for his plans to build a new slave empire as his sanity was slowly dispersing (oh whoops that's not really accurate, bordering on fraudulent). He is at once pathetic and weak and yet dangerous and exciting, the old flavour truly is 'transformed' into a new one by pretending as if 'receipt' checking philosophers like Tweet-detectives works as, ahem, total ownege. Booooo.
"This is precisely how to use Nietzsche from a leftist perspective—using history to serve living, as Nietzsche wanted, and using contempt. Hate must be used to fuel and sustain revolution—hate for class enemies, and the historical injustice they have perpetrated on the masses. "
Yes of course left-version of Nietzsche as the 'political theorist' who despised the 'untermensch' would 'want' the out-group and slave class to transform their hatred for injustice perpetrated on the herd into a destructive revolution! Contradiction lies at the heart of all things for Nietzsche, you see. Of course he seeks to spread his ideas of his ideal to others - as an improver of mankind, how Nietzschean!
The transformation and shift of perspective of old history which is necessary to form a deep resentment towards the Evildoers will hopefully lead to the destruction of the elites who are beneath us. What could be a better way to think of a left Nietzschean? After all his entire philosophical project -- is it anything more than an extended secret re-writing of Pericles' Funeral Oration to include more resentment and mobilized hatred?
"Rather, he wants modern men, with our fully developed complex consciousness, to nevertheless take the same moral perspective on social questions (supporting slavery and mass death), in order to develop cultural greatness. "
I don't know if this re-kindling of the erroneous alt-Right Nietzsche is worse than the more institutional defence of his writing as a 'modern scientifically valid' approach, perhaps it is not. That kind of lawyerly libidinal investment might actually convince people who are becoming more and more 'scientific' about their Neuro-Buddhism and statistical-reasoning.
As a right-wing 'philosophy' blog would argue: Nietzsche isn't actually based - he never murdered anyone or womanized enough and, indeed, he makes far too many 'concessions'. In this fan-fictional image I suppose it makes sense to frame Nietzsche as indeed having this based political project if only to make the Youtuber look worse for it, placing the promise of true radicality in the hands of older configurations of philosophical education. The guilt-by-association strategy barely works with Nietzsche because of the cherry-picking necessary to 'uncover' the enemy - his library contained a work by an obscure French racist who translated the Book of Manu which Nietzsche uncritically followed as a good example for his plans to build a new slave empire as his sanity was slowly dispersing (oh whoops that's not really accurate, bordering on fraudulent). He is at once pathetic and weak and yet dangerous and exciting, the old flavour truly is 'transformed' into a new one by pretending as if 'receipt' checking philosophers like Tweet-detectives works as, ahem, total ownege. Booooo.
"This is precisely how to use Nietzsche from a leftist perspective—using history to serve living, as Nietzsche wanted, and using contempt. Hate must be used to fuel and sustain revolution—hate for class enemies, and the historical injustice they have perpetrated on the masses. "
Yes of course left-version of Nietzsche as the 'political theorist' who despised the 'untermensch' would 'want' the out-group and slave class to transform their hatred for injustice perpetrated on the herd into a destructive revolution! Contradiction lies at the heart of all things for Nietzsche, you see. Of course he seeks to spread his ideas of his ideal to others - as an improver of mankind, how Nietzschean!
The transformation and shift of perspective of old history which is necessary to form a deep resentment towards the Evildoers will hopefully lead to the destruction of the elites who are beneath us. What could be a better way to think of a left Nietzschean? After all his entire philosophical project -- is it anything more than an extended secret re-writing of Pericles' Funeral Oration to include more resentment and mobilized hatred?
"Rather, he wants modern men, with our fully developed complex consciousness, to nevertheless take the same moral perspective on social questions (supporting slavery and mass death), in order to develop cultural greatness. "
I don't know if this re-kindling of the erroneous alt-Right Nietzsche is worse than the more institutional defence of his writing as a 'modern scientifically valid' approach, perhaps it is not. That kind of lawyerly libidinal investment might actually convince people who are becoming more and more 'scientific' about their Neuro-Buddhism and statistical-reasoning.
Maybe I didn't get the joke?