‘I Am A God’: On Becoming More Than Human
David Birch compares the attitudes of Friedrich Nietzsche and Kanye West.
Über as in “right makes might” more so than “might makes right”, let’s say. And for some, no doubt, considerably more so than for others.
They are in power because they deserve to be. And they deserve to be because they are simply superior men. In other words, they weren’t like those who accumulated their wealth and power by inheriting it from Mom and Dad. Or just fortuitously by being in the right place at the right time when money was to be made.
Again, however, who among us gets to say what this actually means…given what set of assumptions, resulting existentially in what particular assessments precipitating what particular prescriptions and proscriptions politically?
On the other hand, with Nietzsche, given eternal recurrence, you have all of eternity to grapple with it.
And neither our shepherd nor our slave master. Instead, for many, he becomes whoever and whatever they need him to be in order to sustain their own assessment of reality.
In other words, if they believe X or Y or Z about Nietzsche, to what extent does that impact on the actual behaviors that they choose? Thus those who insist that, as with a God, the God, my God, there is an Übermensch, the Übermensch, my Übermensch.
Same for…godot.