Erik’s association with Ragnar Redbeard and his distancing from Nietzsche is not a proof against, as his response suggests, but a support for, what I am saying.
His values are hyper-masculine, in that, he values power over beauty. This is why he talks of weakness disparagingly, as if all weakness is bad and all strength good.
Power and beauty are separate and as separate they should be treated. There is a tendency, an overarching conservative desire, to converge all directions to a final destination, as a result of which, we can often see people attempting to argue that all beauty is power and that everything that is powerful is necessarily beautiful, which, if we take a honest look at reality, is simply not the case.
The conservative tendency to unite disparate elements must be abolished, even if it can be made to work with reality, for it is unnecessary and un-aesthetic, a product of excessive fear, nothing less and nothing other than that.
What is beautiful is necessarily innocent and what is powerful is necessary ugly. Power can only be made beautiful by making it subordinate to the beauty of innocence.
Erik’s quoting of Nietzsche is selective, in that, he only selects the hyper-masculine elements he can find in him, ignoring everything else in his work. Effectively, he’s taking the worst from Nietzsche and ignoring everything that is good in him.
That Nietzsche spoke of “Will to Power”, or “der Wille zur Macht”, should not be taken to mean that Nietzsche is a hyper-masculine individual who praises power above else, but perhaps, among many other interpretations, as his reaction to Christian use of weakness as a form of power. For Christians are not frowned up because they are weak, for they are not weak at all, but powerful, only their power is feminine; the real reason they are frowned upon is because they are ugly.
The universe does not strive for power and individual organisms do not necessarily strive for power either. In fact, it’s ignoble to strive for power, for it betrays what the organism was originally.
And what the organism was originally is innocent.
An acquaintance of mine bought a ball python recently, a snake living in an acquarium, which he feeds with . . . hamsters. He uses a cute but weak animal to feed an ugly but powerful thing. An excellent example of hyper-masculinity.
I remember paying a visit once to a friend of mine. A small, pug-like dog, was running around my legs. He grabbed it and threw it across the room saying “I hate small animals!” Another example of hyper-masculinity.
Hyper-masculine degenerates, basically slaves, for slaves are the most conservative among peoples, are breeding shame in normal, healthy people. These people are shamed for being weak. Not for being idealistically ugly, but simply for being weak, thus forcing them into idealistic ugliness, a form of becoming strong at every cost. And so, more hyper-masculine degenerates are bred.
The underlying fear is the idea that if you are soft you cannot be strong, or that, if you are going to fail, you better to something to avoid failing.
