Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

What Nietzche Got Half Right and Half Wrong.
From: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century:
–“The values of the barbarian noble caste, these more complete human beings, were subverted and replaced by the ‘moral’ values of people inferior to them.
Nietzsche saw a…

What Nietzche Got Half Right and Half Wrong.
From: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century:
–“The values of the barbarian noble caste, these more complete human beings, were subverted and replaced by the ‘moral’ values of people inferior to them.
Nietzsche saw a shift in the concept of goodness, away from aristocratic nobility towards compassion and love of one’s neighbour, as the catastrophic triumph of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. This was the long-term triumph of the enslaved Jewish people over their more warlike conquerors. They had preached the virtues of the poor and weak: ‘With the Jews there begins the slave revolt in morality: that revolt which has a history of two thousand years behind it and which we no longer see because it has been victorious.’ Nietzsche saw the victory of slave morality as a kind of poisoning: ‘Everything is visibly becoming Judaized, Christianized, “mob”-ized. The progress of this poison through the entire body of mankind seems irresistible.’”—

Well, as I’ve said, Nietzche was no economist, sociologist, or cognitive scientist – he was too early. ANd he was trapped in the same frame that he tried to teach us to escape: Morality as a narrative rather than a science of cooperation.

And while he understood the problem of the slave moralities and its destructive effects on the aristocracy, the multiplier of their martial society, the multiplier of their rule-of-law politics, their heroic meritocracy, their resulting technology, arts and letters, and achievements, but he failed to grasp the problem of the cost of governing inferior peoples (lower classes), of large numbers, and the need to lower the cost of governing these people by providing them with a means of virtue and status and incentives in the absence of ability, intelligence, personality, training, education, resources, to escape their primitivism, and the utility these lesser people found in the irresponsibility of their religion, as a means of blaming gods, blaming aristocracy, blaming knowledge, technology, political order, they they were UNFIT FOR.

The Greeks then the Romans, then the Germanics solved this problem with repeating the childhood process of infant, youth, young adult, adult, mature adult, and pater-familia’s hierarchy of demonstrated capacity for self, others, social, economic and finally military and political responsibility, with the slave, serf, freeman, citizen, sovereign hierarchy, and the openness to climbing that hierarchy when trust and ability were demonstrated. (What Roberto Duchesne calls “aristocratic egalitarianism” or the search for more members of aristocratic responsibility, just as militaries seek to elevate warriors who demonstrate competency for increased responsibility by demonstrated ability.)

This is ‘demonstrated’ meritocracy is very different from clerical (credentialed) submission and conformity – in fact, it’s the opposite. And the universal failure of the clerical (credentialed) classes is a factor that Dr Turchin has so consistently tried to teach us to understand: the clerical (credentialed) classes may never be permitted hold the power to do other than serve their betters, because only the military and industrial classes have demonstrated capacity to bear responsibility in the organization of humans for the common good without pretense of ideology philosophy or theology, but demonstrated evidence to guide them.

Nietzche failed, and in half solving the problem with philosophizing (pseudo-science), just as Einstien and Bohr half solved the problem of physics with ‘mathiness’ (pseudo-physics) – both the philosopher and the physicists created as great a harm as good, by providing false promise that their failed attempts were solutions rather than mere definitions of a problem.

The central problem is organizing larger and larger numbers of people into a division of labor, when there is a very obvious and vast difference between the classes – of which there are at least three lower, three middle, three upper, as well as the out of sight on either end.

We have discovered most of the laws of doing so but we have left the bottom classes without the organizations they require to ensure their success given their lesser abilities.

We have discovered worse, that women are hostile to all possible responsibility for the commons, and instead seek to end all demand for it by encouraging the authority that our civilization has prohibited since its beginning on the steppe – and which is the singular reason for the west’s disproportionate success in the three major ages of bronze, iron, and steel. – with the one feminine period of the Semitic religions of slave rebellion, creating a dark age – because women, immigrants, and slaves were the vector by which the disease of Semitic sedition spread.

This spread of disease of irresponsibility and sedition is occurring again through the advocacy and support of women, immigrants, and the clerisy (credentialists), that are repeating the destruction of the ancient world more certainly than the plagues and wars – bringing us ever closer to another dark age. And potentially destroying us as thoroughly as Islam has destroyed the north African, levantine, mesopotamian, persian, Anatolian, west hindustani, and partly the Balkans (old europe) and reduced them to ashes of ignorance, dysgenia, decline, decay, and a burden upon all of mankind with their primitivism.

I don’t make the rules.
I just do the science.
And it’s not merciful to our fantasies, wishful thinking, deceits, lies, and frauds.