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Layne A. Jackson's avatar

Note if you like Nietzsche or follow him, I really don't intend this to be a killshot or dunk.

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Hmm, I'm not a self-identified Nietzschean, but I'll take a crack at this.

1. The idea here, I think, is that the purpose of a civilization is to achieve high culture through the aristocracy. It isn't necessarily that the Aristocracy is "parasitic" towards the lower class, but rather that the ruling elite should be focused on the pursuit of talent, art, or ingenuity rather than mechanistic labor (which in the past would be tilling the fields, but I would ascribe it to all sorts of menial repetitive tasks which pervade our society). I wouldn't call it any more parasitic than I would call a farmer parasitic who has his ox plow the fields. Black people don't produce any high culture without bourgeois apparatuses, they are quite well known in fact for squandering their wealth.

2. Demographic replacement is not what Nietzsche is talking about, I think... I think he is talking specifically about elite groups, minority groups, who rule through military force. I think aristocracies tend to fabricate these events though, like the "Sarmatian" Polish nobility was not actually Sarmatian. They just wanted to distinguish themselves. I think what is more important that the aristocracy is a sort of mobile entity. Aristocratic cultures come from nomadic or pastoral groups, which relates to the so-called "parasitism". Pastoral nomads don't have to do much actual labor, but they do have to be able to defend what is theirs.

3. Okay, the other points are fair but this is a little bit silly. Not everything Black people do is bad. In fact, not everything low-IQ people do is bad or wrong. Broken clocks are right twice a day, yadda yadda. Conservatism in general is more associated with lower than average IQ, at least in this day and age. And I don't think Black people are that endogamous. Yeah, they have some preference for their own race. All races do implicitly, and all races except for white people living in the west in the past 40 or so years do explicitly.

4. Appraisal of strength and beauty over intellect or good personality is sort of a different thing from appraisal of power over correctness. I don't necessarily agree with Nietzsche but the point of the latter is more that argumentation is a tool of the weak to entice the strong into giving them things. This is not a moral statement. You, personally, should care about the truth because lying to yourself is a form of insanity. But, being right doesn't actually do anything in the real world. It doesn't give you the ability to exact your will in the way power does, and so you shouldn't feel entitled to it. Black people do not actually have a monopoly on violence, which does not make them a true aristocracy. The US government has a monopoly on violence, and acts in a way which grants Black people special privileges. Black people are completely dependent on this entity, but do not make up the entity.

I don't really know if I would say Nietzsche is right about the aristocracy but he's onto something. The Aristocracy is still moralistic but less than the succeeding Bourgeoisie, which lead to the rise of Liberalism.

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