29.08.09
Booknotes: Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism
Darwiniana has a discussion of The confusions of liberal atheism, and another citation of a book we have discussed here, and may discuss again:
Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism: The Cult of the Superman–Unveiling the Nazi Secret Doctrine, check Amazon
One of the reasons for discussing issues of spiritual psychology, rewritten after the fashion of Samkhya, is to provide a ’secular’ psychology that can warn against the latent schemes of ‘esoteris’ madmen, such as we have seen them in this century.
The point is simple: the complexities of the human self can never evolve by Darwinian mechanisms, and the idea of a fascist eugenics, a la the Nazis, could never work.
The Nazis were a strange set of decoys: who were the real people behind them?