Nietzsche the educator:

Nietasche as the educator tells us that “we should soar above politics.”

Politics is fickle, inconstant, ephemeral as the wind, and just as meaningless. Anyone who has thought long about politics has come away thinkining very little of her.

Nietzsche also tells his followers to betray him, to turn our back to his teachings, and better yet, to cast away his teachings. “What’s the point of listening to your teachers if you do not surpass them?”

Ever since I was in high school, I’ve been infatuated with Nietzsche. At the time I was enamored of an Asian boy who dreamed of going to Harvard. He told me to read Nietzsche and we discussed philosophy and I’m enthralled. He never got into Harvard and I have never heard from him after I got into Johns Hopkins. Some former classmates told me that he eventually dropped out of school and committed suicide. I do not pity him. Our new moral teaches us that the weak must perish from the earth.

But my fascination with Nietzschean philosophy has led me down a well-trodden path, (uncommon among math majors I suppose? but quite common among the intellectually curious) that lead me to Jungian eschatology, Feuerbach, Yukio Mishima, Ayn Rand, Hayek, Karl Marx, and many more. 

I don’t like dating stupid men. I have only dated intellectuals and both of my ex husbands were Ivy league professors …

What is happening in America:

But let me not divagate any more and let’s get into the meat of what’s happening, because what is happening in America is so seismic that no human being on earth today can ignore it. It is not unlike watching the fall of Rome unraveling right in front of our very eyes. It may have taken 200 years for America to become the greatest country in human history, but it would only take a few months to destroy it and the second coming of the Trump administration is doing exactly that.

I know most of my followers are Americans, and I know it’s probably going to hurt your feelings, and trust me, as Japanese, I have always loved America and I worship America and white American men with every fiber of my being, and there is no doubt in my mind that America, after its downfall, will be remembered as the greatest empire to have ever existed in human history. 

That said …

Donald Trump says he is the chosen one, chosen by god, a Christian god I would assume, but if that is true, then, everything that has been done since his ascendancy to the throne is aimed at destroying the very foundation of America, tarnishing its brand forever, and dissolving the very core of America: democracy, rule of law, freedom of press, etc. It’s like watching the Crusaders, after hundreds years of expedition into the middle east, coming back to Europe actively converting their European populace into Islam. It’s as insane as it’s unbelievable. 

But if what Donald Trump is saying is true, that he is indeed chosen by god and most definitely not by Satan, then I can only imagine that the American people have done something to seriously piss off Jesus because he is now sending his father, the vengeful god of the Old Testament, to bring trial and tribulations to the American people. 

Imagine all the horrors of the Chinese dictatorship, and if this trend continues, it will bode very badly for the American people, because life will become very harsh for Americans under the Trump dictatorship. 

And the damage being done by the second administration of Trump is so severe, I just don’t see how America as a nation will ever be able to recover. Trust, once broken, will be very hard to re-establish. And Trump has done exactly that. Forget the political trust that he has already broken with America’s democratic allies. Trump has even broken the economic trust underlying all American asset, from housing to the US bond.

The rise of neo-authoritarianism around the globe

The evil that men do live after them, while the good is often interred with their bones, and so let it be with America. For better or for worse, for the last 80 years or so, since the end of World War II, America has been the beacon of freedom, hope, and human dignity in a sea of darkness. Innumerable masses have looked up to America as the shining city on the hill, yearning to be free. 

All this will now come to a sudden halt. With the state of America precipitously falling into decrepitude, the world will become much darker very soon. As Princeton professor Julian Jaynes notes in his lectures, things like genocide, atrocites, rape and massacres have always been routine pratices throughout human evolution and has always been integral to the natural selection of human sapiens up to modernity, and we can now expect more unspeakable cruelties to be more routinely meted out around the globe. 

And don’t expect the Chinese dictatorship, as it grows stronger and more powerful, to treat its own Chinese citizens with more kindness. Remember during the 1998 Indonesia riots in which ethnic Chinese were being targeted for mass rape, looting and murder, it was actually the United States who condemned the Indonesian government. It was the American government who sent in US naval forces to put a stop to the killing. The Chinese government, on the other hand, refused to even acknowledge the massacre of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia. This behavior is typical of the Chinese. During the Qing dynasty, while the Dutch settlers massacred Chinese in the Southeast Asian colonies, the Qing government not only refused to condemn the Dutch, but even sent envoys to praise their actions for getting rid of disobedient Chinese overseas. In a dictatorship, the well being of the governed populace means nothing to the ruling elite. They are mere cannon fodder and domesticated herds bearing GDP and wealth. 

While it is sad to see the greatest experiment in human history comes to an end, perhaps it is also inevitable.  It certainly has been a good run while it lasted.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”