The new cult meant that a new scourge had descended upon the world - "stagnation." Before the 18th century, "stagnation" was unknown; suddenly it spread its gloom far and wide.
Perhaps he didn’t realize his own innovations haha Girard is saying that his refusal to be a model is an innovation, not that Nietzsche is not a classicist who intends to return to paganism and to nature.
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That is a tricky one. He was never really given a chance to be a model due to his views. A modernist interpretation of Nietzsche is bound to completely fall apart as he rejected all models. But it is very hard to determine if he never wished to be a model himself; an Aristocrat.
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Yes it is hard to say because his unpopularity was probably not by choice. I would say though that his focus on certain people creating their own values and perhaps his own attempt at that are an attempt to not be a model. Girard would says it’s impossible NOT to be a model.
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I do wonder though because of Nietzsches sickly nature and lack of finesse with the ladies that he in truth must have seen himself as not one of the powerful and thus not worthy of emulation. He did ask, “why am I so wise?” Though

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...So Clever... Such An Excellent Writer, etc... He put 'Why I am such a Fatality' in the same theme! LOL
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I am not sure to agree with Girard. There's a sense in which Nietzsche wanted to just 'imitate' our war-like predecessors; he viewed life as 'zero-sum', somehow springing from death/suffering/cannibalism. But I agree that he left room for 'Aristocratic' morality/innovation.
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He called himself the last disciple of the philosopher Dionysus so in some since he is pointing beyond himself toward Dionysus.
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