I post my replies below. I will mention that Bush
mentioned "will to power" in his speech to Congress
and he used it a way that associated it with the evil
of the terrorists. His speech writer must have studied
under those who taught that Nietzsche "directed" the
Nazi program (Nietzsche believed in the radical
individual and would never support the homogenization
goals of Nazism, as one point on a list of many). Bush
also called the "Vice President Pro Tempore" the "Vice
President Pro Temporary", which I found amusing even
in the gravity of the speech he made.
>
> When Nietzsche said
> "God is dead" he predicted the demise of the
> dominant social level, for when
> society doesn't have the mind of God any more than a
> single person does, the
> intellect rules all.
William Barrett explains this in his book: "Man killed
God, [Nietzsche] says, because he could not bear to
have anyone looking at his ugliest side." The plane
crashes represent the "ugliest" in all of us. It
reawakens us to God precisely because the bombings are
so TRUE to our human nature that even our intellect
can not repress it any longer. The intellect can not
RECONCILE the good and bad in us, but it can repress
the bad. That is why Nietzsche asks us to get "Beyond
Good and Evil", become better and more evil. I watched
the PBS series "evolution" last night and they
dramatized Darwin's life. I was struck by the horror
expressed by the people who resisted his ideas (this
being about 1850 or so). We've succumb to the
explanations of reasons, and one of those conclusions
is that we are all evil brutish sorts. And that leaves
one conclusion: kill god and we won't have to deal
with it. The ultimate coup de grace of reason.
> Do you think that the people now have accepted that
> God is dead?
He is dead UNTIL we recognize the "ugliest" in
ourselves. That is what the plane crashes did for a
lot of people. Reason can only repress, and control
objects of reason. But the nature of who we are does
not change, and the horror of life can beat reason at
it's own game anytime.
> Has the
> intellect already transcended this level?
The intellect can not transcend. It can only foment
more illusions. Killing God is just another illusion.
The plane crashes killed the illusion that "God is
dead" for a lot of people. It's a double action: in
the horrifying death of thousands of people, life is
breathed into millions of others. In the Bible, it is
the equivalent of God's request for Abraham to kill
his son.
> Is our
> moral not still concipiated
> of religional clay?
There is always a "bond" a "tie" to the unknown within
all of us. It's just a matter of acknowledgement and
acceptance. A tragedy like the plane crashes has
enough force to "reawaken" everyone whose eyes were
"wide shut." There's only one thing to do, as a
Kubrick character might say: "F***". In loving someone
else, we are able to "tune" into the frequency of
common humanity.
> A very actual topic I think. Are we
> ''Ubermenschen''?
For a moment, in this time of tragedy, there are a lot
of overmen. But the problem is it will fade.
"Ubermenschen" is hard to translate but it does have a
dynamism where you have to overcome everyday. It is
easy to "resurrect god" in your life in the face of
such tragedy. But what about tomorrow? Everyday you
have to overcome, otherwise other life forces will
overcome you. That is the message of "will to power."
Where there is life, there is will to power. We have
to resurrect it in all of us. And stay on it day to
day. Perhaps it is more appropriate to say then that
humans have a unique ability to have a "will to
death." We can give up all our powers to others. In
our horror of the human condition, we do not have the
courage to live by the code of life. If anything out
of the tragedy, maybe millions will be brought out of
their stupor into a will to power. A will to power in
their own lives. it is not good it is not evil. It is
life. Become better and more evil.
angus.
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