1. Tendentious Nietzsche interpretations: These come in two forms, both variations on “whistling in the dark”. The leftist take, I never believed even when I was on the left, holds that Nietzsche can be reclaimed for egalitarian politics. It’s essentially Leninist.
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2. The “superman” will raise up the mob. The other take is Christian. It holds that in a shock reversal Nietzsche was really a believer in God and that only “the mob” believes he was a vulgar atheist. People who do this often have the air of trying to convince themselves.
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