[link|http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n18/disk01_.html|There's less to his thought than meets the eye.]

Excerpt:

Nietzsche wrote in Beyond Good and Evil that the task of 'free, very free spirits' was to translate 'man back into nature' after tradition had scribbled and painted over the original text. The job of translating Nietzsche's thought back into its original form after Elisabeth got her hands on it has been very similar. But it has to be said that concepts such as \ufffdbermensch and Herrenmoral lent themselves to becoming the bedrock of National Socialist philosophy. It wasn't exactly a case of a liberal democrat being forced into bed with National Socialism, though Nietzsche clearly would have hated Hitler. The problem, J.P. Stern suggests, is that Nietzsche was too non-political to see how his thoughts about the way individuals should conduct themselves might be used by something very nasty indeed. Stern, at least, does not let Nietzsche off entirely; he must take some blame for failing to pursue the consequences of his ideas.

I say:

And this is exactly why Nietzsche is not to be taken seriously as a philosopher. The guy just didn't think things through. It's like he was drunk on his own ideas. (Bright, colorful, blurry ideas. The colors, man, the colors!) Maybe he was too infatuated with himself, in his precious pose as a courageous dissenter to pretty much everything that had passed the test of time, to even figure out what constructive dissent even means. (Hint: it looks nothing at all like [link|http://www.duke.edu/~pms5/humor/argument.html|this]. Let alone [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=118049|this].)

Human, all too human.

You don't get syphilis that way.