Übermensch
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Sep 12, 2026
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The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, for instance, is decried as a hater of the weak because he believed in the Ubermensch.
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It does not occur to the shallow interpreters of that giant mind that this vision of the Ubermensch also called for a state of society which will not give birth to a race of weaklings and slaves.
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It is the same narrow attitude which sees in Max Stirner naught but the apostle of the theory, each for himself, the devil take the hind one.
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That Stirner's individualism contains the greatest social possibilities is utterly ignored.
AndrewHOST
The new formed man for this new world order that they're trying to create as well.
AndrewHOST
It's all going to be a new, as we talk about in this, it's about the Ubermensch, the Superman creating a new man.
AndrewHOST
That's what all this stuff really is, you know?
Bill CooperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So.
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Bill CooperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nazi means national socialism.
Bill CooperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hitler confided to Hermann Rauschening, the president of the Danzig Senate, quote, National socialism is more than a religion.
Bill CooperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is the will to create Superman, unquote.
Bill CooperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And what is the number of the man? 6666.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
It, it's, it is.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
It's the, uh, 'cause he sees the tendency in the, in the tech bro toward the Ubermensch and toward that understanding of humanity.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
You know, I, I would never argue that, that Elon Musk doesn't care about the future of humanity.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
It's just that his definition of humanity is so different than ours.
AndrewHOST
Yeah, just like X-Men.
AndrewHOST
Like X-Men, they want to create the new Ubermensch.
AndrewHOST
They want to create the new Superman.
AndrewHOST
X-Men, right? We could get into Esalen Institute in a minute, but the Esalen Institute, the same year that was opened, was when they started the comic book about X-Men.
GriffeyHOST
Yeah.
GriffeyHOST
So essentially one of those scientists now has been bought by a corporation, and they're going rogue, and they're designing these super soldiers, right, the Ubermensch that is kind of this myth that the Nazis were always chasing down, right? Yeah.
GriffeyHOST
In a lab in the middle of the desert, right, that even he can't fucking know where it is.
GriffeyHOST
He's blindfolded as he goes.
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GriffeyHOST
I
SamHOST
don't like it.
GriffeyHOST
Making Ubermensch or whatever.
GriffeyHOST
And then they make the Uber mention.
KozlowskiHOST
And in the gay science in particular, we see the sort of purest and earliest realizations of his four most famous ideas.
KozlowskiHOST
First, the Superman, which we'll discuss as we talk about Thus Spake Zarathustra.
KozlowskiHOST
Second, the idea that God is dead, which we will also explore in Thus Spake Zarathustra.
KozlowskiHOST
Third, the idea of the will to power.
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KozlowskiHOST
Like, to actually alleviate their pride, to tell them they don't have to work, that they don't have to toil, is unwelcome news to them.
KozlowskiHOST
And notice that that's exactly what Zarathustra finds.
KozlowskiHOST
As soon as he does descend into the people, like, the gift that Zarathustra presents to them is, in chapter 3, I teach you the Superman.
KozlowskiHOST
Man is something that is to be surpassed.
Julian SoloninkaGUEST
She was a very capable philosopher in her own right, but she was so powerful, her hold on him, that he wasn't able to like live without her basically.
Julian SoloninkaGUEST
So Nietzsche fell madly in love with her and he instantly viewed her as his equal, which, you know, remember that this guy literally, so he thought of himself as Superman and she was his lowest lane basically.
Julian SoloninkaGUEST
Right.
Julian SoloninkaGUEST
And right.
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The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Friedrich Nietzsche, for instance, is decried as a hater of the weak because he believed in the Ubermensch.
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It does not occur to the shallow interpreters of that giant mind that this vision of the Ubermensch also called for a state of society which will not give birth to a race of weaklings and slaves.
speaker_2NARRATOR
It is the same narrow attitude which sees in Max Stirner naught but the apostle of the theory, "Each for himself, the devil take the hind one." That Stirner's individualism contains the greatest social possibilities is utterly ignored.
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Yet it is nevertheless true that if society is ever to become free, it will be so through liberated individuals whose free efforts make society.
Wolf TivyHOST
But at the time, everyone was fighting.
Wolf TivyHOST
They had other ideas about what was important as humanity versus the Germans or the Ubermensch or whatever.
Wolf TivyHOST
These concepts, communism, the arc of history.
Wolf TivyHOST
But they didn't yet have the concept of space.
John Van StanNARRATOR
So alien are ye in your souls to what is great, That to you the superman would be frightful in his goodness.
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And ye wise and knowing ones,
John Van StanNARRATOR
ye would flee from the solar glow of the wisdom in which the Superman joyfully batheth his nakedness.
John Van StanNARRATOR
Ye highest men who have come within my ken, this is my doubt of you and my secret laughter.
John Van StanNARRATOR
I suspect you would call my Superman a devil.
John Van StanNARRATOR
Ah, I became tired of those highest and best ones.
John Van StanNARRATOR
From their height did I long to be up, out, and away to the Superman.
John Van StanNARRATOR
A horror came over me when I saw those best ones naked.
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