2492. The Modernist says: Knowledge is more valuable than strength. But knowledge IS strength. When we speak of masculine superiority we do not only mean physical strength. We mean intellectual strength, analytical strength, spiritual strength...not simply data storage, or regurgitating info, like a computer, but understanding...which is the finding of patterns within the knowledge, the data, the info. The Modernist says: Because there can be no philosophy without society Then any society will do? Is there a philosophy in an ant-colony, in a bee-hive? Is the Islamic system to bring about the next overman? Is Christian society just as good as any other for Nietzsche? So, Nietzsche philosopher/overman can be a Mullah, a Rabbi? The only prerequisite to being an overman is to be able to think and have the leisure time to formulate a world-view? Was Nietzsche overman Saul, later to be named Paul? Really? The answer is leisure, coupled with energies evolved through time due to strife, struggle, agon. All men have a philosophy, as all men live in a society and have constructed or, most likely, have adopted, a world-view. Then why this over man, when all men are philosophical, to one degree or another? Nihilism is a philosophy, are nihilists overmen. No!!!! The feminine spirit here cannot resist patting itself on the back. Overman....the man who has overcome resentiment of himself, his self-hatred, the bitterness towards his own condition, after he awakens to it. An overman has overcome the hatred, the emotion, of his own temporality. Not making excuses, or trying to find ways to escape the inevitability, the necessity of his own temporality, his own temporary existence and the need/suffering it entails. This overcoming will be felt as a power all men will recognize. THAT is the overman. Not some muscle-bound super-hero, not some brooding thinker that can think any idea, and propose any ideal, not some dominator of women and children.
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