The one thing I can't stand...

[W.Anthony]

I agree with everything in Creativity.
All except one thing... Nietzsche.
I will be honest. I haven't read his books, taken time to learn about his beliefs etc. BUT I do know that he absolutely hated Germans. So I can't fathom how we can really respect him when he says Germans are "made up of the most extraordinary mixing and mingling of races" and he says, "It is even part of my ambition to be considered as the despiser of the German par excellence. "
I don't understand this at all!
Explanations or justification would be appreciated I suppose.

[Rev.Cambeul]

Nietzsche was a nihilist. His idea was to tear down society and rebuild it in a vision set to his own moral and political ideals - something similar to Creativity as there is practically nothing left today that we Creators see as morally and politically worthwhile in today's society.

Regarding Nietzsche's dislike of Germans: In Nietzsche's time, Germany was a brand new nation cobbled together from Germanic states speaking a wide variation of dialects, and outlying Slavic border states. When we think of Germany today, we see it through the post White War One eyes of former enemies become brothers. We don't see the differences that still exist to this day between the various regions and dialects that make up modern Germany. We see Germany in much the same way our grandfathers in khaki saw Germany - as a monolithic nation devoid of cultural diversity. For comparison, most of the world sees Britain in much the same light with top-hatted poofs running the show and cheery Cockneys at the bottom, slaving away in the coal mines and the factories singing away like Disney dwarves. America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa: We're all seen as variations on the cowboy theme with our own versions of the top-hatted poofs in charge.

Of course, none of our once White Nations can really be narrowed down to such idiotic descriptions, but that's what becomes of popular misconceptions. And it's the same for Germany and Germans.

A good example of the differences throughout Germany and Austria are the Terminator movies. Arnie being Austrian speaks absolutely perfect German, but even though he requested to dub his own dialogue in the Terminator movies into German, the studio refused and hired someone else to do the job. The reason: To most Germans, Arnie with his Austrian accent sounds like a rustic farmer with his straw hat, smock and rubber boots, chewing on his pipe and shagging his sheep. You can just imagine how if Arnie was allowed to dub his own dialogue into German, the Terminator movies would have been Germany's most successful comedy series. When you look at it that way you can understand how the people of Nietzsche's newly united Germany felt. After all, apart from all the cultural and linguistic differences, they had been at war with each other for near a thousand years before that.

White War One created a united Germany in ours and Germans' minds in a sense that the political formation of the nation of Germany in 1873 did not. It will be victory following the Racial Holy War between White Europeans and the muds in their midst that will accomplish the same for Europe today. Perhaps then, brother, it will be your grandsons that are asking why our generations so mocked the European Union?

@Cailen.

[W.Anthony]

Thanks Reverend. That really cleared things up.
I suppose I haven't an excuse left to not read Nietzche.