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Friday 20 January 2006

"I also ordered the abcesses caused by our internal and external poisons cauterised until the living flesh was burnt". (Hitler)

Nietzsche maintains that all culture and civilisation is based on cruelty, and its personification, the Blond Beast.

"The BB is the rapacious but natural man, the type familiar to the ancient Greeks. Such a predator (Raubtier) is undoubtedly to be feared, but he is preferable to the refined and tamed 'household pet' which Christian culture has produced.The type of man to whom the phrase would apply would be the ruthless man of action, free to invent his own code of morality ". (C. Deithe)

Nietzsche himself gives the best description of the BB qualities;
"They do not know what guilt, responsibility, or consideration are, these born organisers ... Such natures come like fate, without reason, or pretext; they appear as lightning appears, too terrible, too sudden, too convincing, too 'different' even to be hated. Their work is an instinctive creation and imposition of forms; they are the most involuntary, unconscious artists there are - wherever they appear something new soon arises, a ruling structure that LIVES, in which parts and functions are delimited and co-ordinated, in which nothing whatever finds a place that hasn't first been assigned a 'meaning' in relation to the whole". (Nietzsche GM II:17)

It is thanks to the BB that we have culture at all; it is also no thanks to the BB that we have the 'bad conscience' that fear of the BB inculcated into the Slave.
The Slave must never triumph, ALL Hail the Blond Beast!

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