Bush vs. Nietzsche: The politics of evil.

The Weekly Standard ^ | 04/01/2002 | James W. Ceaser

[Buckeroo]

"Thank God we now have a rightous man in Washington. " -- concerned about politics

I don't mean to step on your toes but how can you substantiate a comment like yours, just above? Bush is can barely add/subtract afterall, he has proposed the largest federal government in US History; he has proposed the largest deficit spending in years; he has proposed the largest federal budget in history.

He says he going after evil. Yet, his actions are comparable to that which are his incredible objectives, "to remove evil from the world."

[justshutupandtakeit]

Right his prediction was not what he wanted to occur but what he understood would occur given the social, political and philosophical bent of the West.

The regime which was blamed on him, the Nazis, would have earned nothing but his complete contempt because it was the ultimate manifestation of the mediocrity which was destroying Europe in his mind. The Nazis were nihilist to the core and loved it.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The U.S. Israeli conflict may give the Murdering Minions of Mad Mo their current excuse to kill Christians but it had little to do with 9/11. OBL just throws that in as a sop. He is pissed because the Moslems were kicked out of Spain 500 years ago and Islame is a laughingstock to the modern world, the center of poverty, oppression, evil and idiocy.

The problem is caused by a "religion" which is Satanic and evil to its core. This is why its followers hate Jews and Christians and kill them by the millions in scores of countries across the world.

[monkey]

Yes.

Nietzche said nothing about civilization moving beyond good and evil, or anywhere else, for that matter. He said that the masses were primarily crank-turners, and only a few men were what mattered from a civilization. Furthermore, he did not buy into the idea of progress, pointing out that the great men of the past had not been exceeded.

Nietzsche is easily the most influential nontechnical thinker of the last 150 years (Webber, Freud, Spengler, O'Neil, Derrida, many artists, many "movements", many others). His influence, combined with "God is (now) Dead" have created the false popular impression that Nietzsche was a temporally forward-looking philosopher.