The greatest champion for the greatness of evolution was a man
who could never reach that which he described so well…the nobleman. For he was
sick most of his life, and later his mind also began to wane as his body had for
most of his life. Indeed most of his work seems almost angry in tone, perhaps an
anger directed at being able to think of “the One” like De Beauvoir describes,
while being physically “the Other”.


Friedrich Nietzsche believed that man was a product of
evolution, but most men, he believed, did not seek to rise to the challenge.
Most he believed were like a herd of sheep. Beings who took no responsibility
for themselves, and who deluded themselves into thinking they can dictate the
herd mentality on their predators. These predators in contrast were the free,
who paid no heed to the bleating of sheep each morning, when they took one from
the pen for food.


Nietzsche believed the Nobleman of man was a more evolved being
then the average man. His abilities were from his genes, just as much as his
brain. He was like the ancient aristocrats, or heroes of myth. Charismatic,
courageous, a natural leader, the one who rose to power under his own labor, the
best. An example of the best that human evolution could come up with, the eagle
of his parable logic above.


What is interesting is Nietzsche’s work with its historical
examples, and his use of the Jewish Faith and Israel to forward his points
against the church, in favor of the freedom of the nobleman, was singled out,
even though he used other groups and examples for his works as well. Like so
many times in history, his words were soon used by one of the most dangerous and
loud herds of men to roam the planet, this being the German people. I do not
think Nietzsche hated the Jewish faith per se, (I believe he hated all churches
equally), but theirs was well known to western man, and their history was well
documented. A perfect example to make his points of Church versus the freedom of
man. He hated Jesus just as much as Jews which is evident in his
works:


“The ‘redemption’ of the human being race (from ‘the masters’,
that is), is going forward; everything is visibly becoming Judaized,
Christianized, mob-ized, (what do the words matter!). (Marino,
p123)


Nietzsche the champion of freedom in thinking became, mainly
through his sister in his last years of life, the champion of Nazi’s and
Anti-Semitic militias. Now his work was being loosely interpreted by Germany to
control the masses. His love for the freedom of the highly evolved man, had been
changed into a cold and sadistic group police force ideology who now herded
sheep for slaughter. Dictating the herd mentality of its people into a fanatic
fascist police state. No longer eagles, now becoming more like sheep dogs. The
freedom of the eagle traded for role of a sheep dog, herding others for others,
and losing his own freedom in the process.



REFERENCES



    Marino g, (2004), Basic Writings of
Existentialism, Modern Library, New York, NY