Nietzsche and the damnation of ideas
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Here is the article on Nietzsche:

“Do ideas have consequences? Do damnable, evil ideas have damnable and evil consequences? If so, then a unbiased view of 20th century history would have to link Nietzsche’s “Will to Power” directly to World War I, but more directly to Hitler’s Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust. Hitler, Hess, Rohm, Goering, Bormann, Himmler, Heydrich and all of the top Nazi officers venerated Nietzsche’s radical ideas of Ubermenschen and modeled their Third Reich on his grim philosophical speculations.

The consequence of Nietzsche’s damnation of ideas was his own personal, protracted descent into madness beginning in January 1889 – his perhaps syphilitic-derived dementia so completely cast him into despair that his daily rantings and ravings were: “I am dead because I am stupid. … I am stupid because I am dead.”

Regarding the popular “political correctness” movement that dominates the modern academy, politics, culture and civil discourse where one cannot even tell the truth about anything for fear of offending someone, Nietzsche howled against that immature view in his own inimitable style – “Niceness [political correctness] is what is left of goodness when it is drained of greatness.”

Where will Nietzsche’s Will to Power take a people, a society, a nation, a world that has long since disposed with the inconvenient niceties of Christianity and morality? Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, Ho Chi Mihn, Pol Pot, Edi Amin, Osama bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea, Syria, Iran, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have given us a glimpse into the abyss, and it is not very hopeful.

British historian Paul Johnson wrote about Nietzsche and his indelible place in history: “The greatest event of recent times – that ‘God is dead,’ that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable – is beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.”

Nietzsche, admittedly, was a brilliant and influential philosopher, but because his ideas are rooted in atheism, humanism, Social Darwinism, eugenics and nihilism, the latter of which is an extreme view that there is no need for values and no justification for good, evil or morality, in the end he can only offer society perpetual war, genocide, utter despair and no future hope of eternal life with God, because Nietzsche declared, “God is dead.”

America, we can do better than Nietzsche … can’t we?”

Yup.
Jenny Hatch
For a great talk on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Nietzsche please review this movie I put together from a talk by Ezra Taft Benson.

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