Homo sapiens, deus quod propago

(human beings, god and propaganda)

"Quo iure? Quo animo?"
(By what law? With what spirit?)

Listening to John Coltrane - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - I started to wonder about the human beings and their dogmas.

Today is the 25th aniversary of the Mein Kampf - Adolph Hitler's masterpiece. I immediately thought about Nietzsche.

Despite the fact that Hitler's book was all based on Nietzsche's philosophy, it gives us a good example on how distortion of a such original, exceptional and radical thought (nietzscheian), could drive things to an opposite direction (hitlerism).

The clever use of quotations extracted from the context are frequently used as a good way of directing the spirits. Hitler knew how to use words of wisdom (?) to persuade people - from a farmer to an intellectual, althought the intellectuals were far harder to convince, as he had to level his speech to the lowest ones, as he taught in the Mein Kampf, through this maxim:

"All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be."

While Nietzsche's Superman is heroic, a being totaly free from the Christian dogmas whom preach the mercy, the humility, and the socratic-alexandrine principles of the occidental culture's decay, Hitler's Superman is cruel and oppressing, enslaved of the propagandistic alienation, as he is in constant guilt and auto-persecution.

For those whom say to make things on behalf of the democracy, aiming specially - or only - economic interests, through bloody wars that cause the destruction of countries and the death of millions of human beings in the world.

And to finalise - I want to quote too, or the rude ones also quote! But if you excuse me, I'll do it in Latin...

Quot homines, tot sententiae
(As many men, so as many opinions)

As you can see, it is easy to quote. Hard is to be authentic...