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Friday 20 January 2006

Nietzsche's ability to coin telling phrases is unsurpassed, from Amor Fati to Zarathustra; his philosophy creates its own mythology, populated by creatures high and low.Among them, none is more fascinating than the Blond Beast [in German 'die blonde Bestie'] - henceforth, the BB.

Kaufman has done much [no doubt out of a deep seated slave resentment] to distort the meaning of the BB; he has suggested that Nietzsche was talking about Lions like some latter day Aesop!But look at the evidence; the five times (5) that Nietzsche uses the phrase 'the BB' in his work, it is ALWAYS in connexion with the Aristocratic conquering Master Races. Of course the BB as an appellation is in the Aryan tradition of totemic names like Beowulf, and this in turn, refers back to the shamanic tradition where Aryan warriors took on the Spirit of Beasts of Prey, such as the wolf, the bear, the eagle, and ... the Blond Beast!Kaufman is either ignorant of Aryan traditions, or else he lies - or both.

1) Evidence of the elusive BB in Nietzsche's work; these are the bona fide references. This is the VERY FIRST mention;

"One cannot fail to see at the bottom of these noble races, the beast of prey, the splendid BLOND BEAST prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory; this hidden core needs to erupt from time to time, the animal has to get out again and go back to the wilderness: the Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings - they all shared this need".[Nietzsche, GM I:11]

Notice here that Nietzsche mentions Aryan [Germanic, Roman, Scandinavian and Hellenic], and Arabian and Japanese nobility. Notice what races and cultures he does NOT mention! Notice also that this noble 'core' is never destroyed; in times of slave rule [e.g., in modern democracies], it merely lies latent, ready to regroup and reassert its rule. This is because genes do not blend, but combine - a programme of discipline and breeding will always be able to pick apart those unwonted combinations, and extricate the noble gold from the common dross.


2) The second reference is this;"that raging of the blond Germanic beast". [ib.]

This is clear enough, and Nietzsche makes a similar point to my own above, that this BB of the ancient Germanic tribes, has been spoilt by inter-breeding [of Aryan with pre-Aryan], and by Christianisation [the attempt to extirpate all nobility and beast of prey will top power]. So the mongrelised German of his day could not think himself the same man as those Germanic warriors of antiquity. Again, a culture of discipline and breeding [Zucht] can bring about a revival of antique values in the future.


3) The third reference is;"The entire pre-Aryan populace - they represent the REGRESSION of mankind! These 'instruments of culture' are a disgrace to man, and rather an accusation and counterargument against 'culture' in general! One may be quite justified in continuing to fear the blond beast at the core of all noble races, and in being on one's guard against it: butr who would not a hundred times sooner fear where one can also admire than NOT fear but be permanently condemned to the repellent sight of the ill-constituted, dwarfed, atrophied, and poisoned? ". [ib.]

This leaves one in no doubt as to where Nietzsche stands on the relative value of the BB; to paraphrase the Duce; better one day as a Lion, than a hundred years as a sheep.Again, to pick out the most important phrase from above;"The blond beast at the core of all noble races".


4) The next reference is this;"Some pack of blond beasts of prey, a conqueror and Master Race which, organised for war and with the ability to organise". [GM II : 17]

Nietzsche says here that the BB, and the BB alone, is the source of what is known as the 'ruling structure' [in the widest sense, including all types of tribal, political organisation].


5) The final citation is the following;"In the early Middle Ages, when the Church was in fact primarily a menagerie, people on all sides hunted down the finest examples of the 'blond beast' - they 'improved' the noble Teutons, for example". [Twilight, 'Improvers' 2]

This describes the aforementioned vitiation of the BB, turning the noble man into a 'sinner'.So, before we go further, THESE are the only references, and they rebut the lies and obfuscations of Kaufman and his sheep.

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