ozzie has their number

“everyone demands something of the rest. We say thou ‘shalt’ in the conviction that so-and-so, in fact will, can, and must be changed or fashioned, or arranged conformably to the order, and our belief in both the efficacy of and our title to give such orders is unshakable…in the ethics of the West everything is direction, claim to power, will to affect the distant. Here Luther is completely at one with Nietzsche, Popes with Darwinists, Socialists with Jesuits ….he who teaches or thinks otherwise is sinful, a back-slider, a foe, and he is fought down mercilessly…even Nietzsche, that most passionate opponent of ‘herd morale’, was perfectly incapable of limiting his zeal to himself. He thought only of ‘mankind’ and he attacked everyone who differed from himself [and] he breathes from end to end the pain of seeing men to be other than he would have them be, and a deep, un-Classical desire to devote a life to their reform, his own sense of the word, naturally, being the only one.” Ozzie Spengler. decline of the west A couple of things…1. We are all mired in an ego viewpoint and struggle to see others’ viewpoints…2. Hegemonic culture is so structured that any substantive threat from below will unite disparate factions of the elite in defense of privilege and prerogative, and…3. Any attack on “the system” using its institutions or cultural vocabulary only validates it…the only way to escape it is to make it irrelevant and ignore it to the greatest extent possible…this may be the perceived ethos of the western united states…unfortunately they are guilty of using the hegemonic culture’s cultural vocabulary ( be independent, stand on your own two feet, work hard, prosper ) as a basis for that attack…they are inseparable from the mainstream and have no inking of it.