Friedrich Nietzsche: The Joker or The Batman?

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This may be repetitive and clumsy but i have to quote it again, i borrowed the analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche from one of his work while debating with a Maoist sympathizer who was quoting Karl Marx,  Che Guevera etc...
“When the exceptional man handles the mediocre man with more delicate fingers than he applies to himself or to his equals, this is not merely kindness of heart—it is simply his duty… . Whom do I hate most heartily among the rabbles of today? The rabble of Socialists, the apostles to the Chandala, who undermine the workingman’s instincts, his pleasure, his feeling of contentment with his petty existence—who make him envious and teach him revenge… . Wrong never lies in unequal rights; it lies in the assertion of “equal” rights… . What is bad? But I have already answered: all that proceeds from weakness, from envy, from revenge. The anarchist and the Christian have the same ancestry… .”
I am quite sure that the subject of 'Misinterpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche' would occupy more pages than the his actual works. Every ideology across the spectrum was influenced by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and most of them deliberately misinterpreted his works and some misunderstood his works.

Anarchists have their own idiosyncratic imagination when it comes to the interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche, they try hard to reach the line of "Hence Proved" to make others digest the fake that Friedrich Nietzsche was an Anarchist.


Christopher Nolan was accused of being insensitive to the Occupy Wall Street protests, as his film 'The Dark Knight Rises' allegedly ridiculed the protests and Nolan in an interview after the release of 'The Dark Knight Rises' said...
I think truly threatening villains are the ones who have a coherent ideology behind what they’re saying. The challenge in applying that to The Joker was to have part of the ideology be anarchic and a lack of ideology in a sense. But it’s a very specific, laid-out lack of ideology, so it becomes, paradoxically, an ideology in itself.
The Joker is an Anarchist and confronts Batman, not for money, not just for fame, but for the ideology. I came across an instance where Friedrich Nietzsche is equated with 'The Joker' for being a Anarchist and Anarchists smile for such comparisons. I eventually come with a laugh after listening to claim of Anarchists.

I guess, when Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was planning to convert himself to other religion he would have come across many critical works about other religions and its quite possible that he encountered with the works of Friedrich Nietzsche when looking into Christianity and let me guess - he was frustrated with the references of the Manusmrti and Ambedkar even wrote articles criticizing Nietzsche's works. I believe that it is a normal human reaction to have negative views when your are following a path to find a goal and a path exposes things which you may not like, i really doubt if Ambedkar has read the other works of Nietzsche where he not only praises but also criticizes the Manusmrti.

Please do not equate Islamic 'Jihad' or Conversions into Buddhism with the works of Nietzsche as he had soft corner for Islam and Buddhism in the context of the Church and Christianity which prevailed during his time. It is because of his contempt for Christianity he was referring Islam and Buddhism.

Fascists, Nazis and Communists had their share of Nietzschean influence when the world was yet to witness an important event like the World War 2. There were very few people who have taken him seriously when he was alive and after his death, there were people who have taken him seriously to foster their ideological and political ambitions. Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' took shape because of Nietzsche's works, Mussoloni's Fascism was kept alive in the name of Nietzsche, Communists who were yet to finalize their holy-thy father 'Karl Marx' found some interesting things in the works of Nietzsche.

Europe, was slowly coming under the grip of Communism, Socialism was accepted openly and now its the time to embrace 'Marxism'. It can be said as the sad days of Europe, as more and more Europeans read Karl Marx and Nietzsche was a unknown philosopher in his own land.

Nietzsche's influence was not bounded to Europe, his works traveled across the world and one of the best example of misinterpretations of Nietzsche can be found in AmericaHuey P. Newton, the founder of 'Black Panther Party' was very much inspired from Friedrich Nietzsche. I really doubt if anyone can beat this disgusting dichotomy.

"God is Dead" ~ Nietzsche and the humorous quote "Nietzsche is Dead" ~ God. I being an agnostic i take it sportively and i am quite sure that Nietzsche would have taken it in the same way as he was best critic of himself and didn't mince words when he was self critical. Zarathustra advocated dying at the right time "Die at the right time!" and not long before his death, when Hugo Chavez, the mascot of Socialism was trying to cope with Cancer he was referring Zarathustra and i wonder did Chavez die at the right time?
On January 3, 1889, Nietzsche suffered a mental collapse. Two policemen approached him after he caused a public disturbance in the streets of Turin. What happened remains unknown, but an often-repeated tale from shortly after his death states that Nietzsche witnessed the flogging of a horse at the other end of the Piazza Carlo Alberto, ran to the horse, threw his arms up around its neck to protect it, and then collapsed to the ground.[Wiki]
Is Friedrich Nietzsche is 'The Joker' or 'The Batman'? The Communists and Socialists always tried to capture every opportunity to force others to accept their crap and its the new minority of left liberals who are now trying to associate themselves with works of Friedrich Nietzsche. I can clearly see the exponential curve of left liberal imagination taking the path of a dream where they want to feel Nietzsche and later enter into an intimate dark fantasy with his works to claim that the legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Friedrich Nietzsche is not 'The Batman' and he is definitely not the 'The Joker' as it goes against the basic ideas of his works. 'The Batman' or the spirit of Gotham to be precise, is the fragment of what Nietzsche envisioned. 'The Batman' is the Nietzsche's Superman (Übermensch).

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