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“[Women] have no history, religion of their own, and they are not like the proletarian solidarity work and interests (…) They live dispersed among men, attached by housing, labor, economic, social condition in some men – fathers or husbands – more closely than other women”

Book:The Second Sex

Work

The Second Sex

Written by Simone de Beauvoir, this influential book delves into the complexities of gender identity and the social construction of femininity and masculinity. It examines the ways in which women are marginalized and the implications of this on their personal and societal lives. more

Author

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social activist. Known for her profound philosophical thoughts and her advocacy for women's status, she is one of the most influential female thinkers of the 20th century. Her works spanned various genres, including novels, philosophical essays, plays, and memoirs, with her most famous work being 'The Second Sex'. more

“To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget (a good example of this in modem times is Mirabeau, who had no memory for insults and vile actions done him and was unable to forgive simply because he—forgot). Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine 'love of one's enemies' is possible—supposing it to be possible at all on earth. How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!—and such reverence is a bridge to love.—For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture 'the enemy' as the man of ressentiment conceives him—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived 'the evil enemy,' 'the Evil One,' and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a 'good one'—himself!”

Slave Morality Ressentiment

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“Rand, Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury foresaw much of today’s dystopian world: its spiritual and moral emptiness, its culture of consumerism, its flat-souled Last Manishness, its debasement of language, its doublethink, its illiteracy, and its bovine tolerance of authoritarian indignities. But they did not foresee the most serious and catastrophic of today’s problems: the eminent destruction of whites, and western culture. None of them thought to deal with race at all. Why is this? Probably for the simple reason that it never occurred to any of them that whites might take slave morality so far as to actually will their own destruction. As always, the truth is stranger than fiction.”

Dystopian Dystopia George Orwell 1984 Ray Bradbury Ayn Rand White Genocide Aldous Huxley Doublethink The Last Man Slave Morality

Author:Jef Costello

“Nietzsche talked about “good and bad” in the context of nobility. The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad. When the “good and bad” of the nobility was replaced by the “good and evil” of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified. The holy mediocrities are now everywhere. The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute … absolute shit!”

Mediocrity Nietzsche Slave Morality Exellence Master Morality

Book:The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak

Source: The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak

“God is a feeble, emasculated non-God on a cross who can’t even save himself. If he can’t save himself, how can he save you? Give us Nietzsche’s Superman any day. God is dead. Long live the Overman. The task is to get stronger and stronger, not weaker and weaker.”