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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
Ultimately, this philosophy is German in origin -- it comes from Heidegger, Marx and Nietzsche, but it purports to be an extension of the Lockean natural rights theory upon which our Constitution is based.
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Very true RL- the irony being that what is happening in America and TO America is precisely the domination of the strong by the weak that Nietzsche talked about
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The denigration of the sheepdog by the sheep he protects because of his (perceived) similarities to the wolves, and (more centrally) his indirect indictment, by his mere existence, of the sheep's courage- or lack thereof.
The desire to rewrite history to favor those considered to be the "weak" or "underdog", regardless of the actual MORALITY involved.
The sprawling Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism that runs wild through the world, which seeks to turn every bastion of American culture and success into a vicious abuse of some "other."
Those that cannot, turn their inability and unwillingness into a virtue, while turning the strength, ingenuity, and domineering mentality of those that DO, into a vice. I never liked Nietzsche- because he always made me the most depressed to read, and yet he always seemed to make the most sense.
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