I erased ‘mere’ as applied to Nietzsche and replaced it with a phrasing that does at least some justice to the power and importance of his writing.
The ideal of power over others is relinquished to the reality of power as oneself-in-relation-to-others.
My signature has become somewhat ironic… at this point. I’m glad that my upstairs neighbor is drawing for Donald Duck Magazine when he is not rollerskate-vacuuming. There is, when one is enclosed in the ego, in the other always both something to relate to and something to hate. When the perimeters dissolve by an actual encounter neither is relevant. I do not want power over this guy. If there is something I want for him, it’d have to be that I could assist him in attaining something that is now out of his reach. That is my only real power over anyone - the power that is his/hers because of me. I’m not actually going to ask him for a Donald Duck meets Nietzsche mural in the stairway, but hypothetically that’s what I’d do for power. I wouldn’t force him to pay my bills or eat my shit. I guess I’m more of an investment banker than an employer of armies. The basic difference between liberal and conservative - taking risks and squeezing assets. War cannot exist without the dialectic between the two inside the human conscience in moral sense - and human cleverness in the amoral sense. Conscientiousness, “wisdom”. Together it amounts to something altogether different from the Sophia the day-Goddess. Other rituals have taken place under her name, underneath curves modelled after her - Catholicism is sensual beyond mere sensuality - practical beyond mere practicality. We cannot fathom the old masters. Creating anew from the rubble of its remains, emptied of glory. Exhausted is the dead God, let him die and come forth. Rise will what rise may.
The symbolization of power - more precisely of the feeling of power, which Nietzsche praises as the ultimately real value, is represented to us as $, sex - where objet petit a was in the 50’s a coke bottle, now it is something that is much heavier on our system, more aggressive and self assertive - a lot more, I would say, toward the ‘real truth.’ Namely, to the fact of its impossibility, it’s too-muchness. It cannot be contained as an ideal, it becomes the obverse, the abject.
Summarizing, this Hegelian tangent led to a new interpretation of power over the world, a negation of its existence as a directly attainable value. For whatever it may prove worth to me in the future, in any case this explains how such a thing as Marxism could to arise from Hegelian thought.