Friedrich Nietzsche: The Joker or The Batman?

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.

Happy Birthday Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some men are born posthumously” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I came across his name for the first time in my 10^th class Social Studies History textbook, a lesson about the World War II and if I remember correctly, the sentence was– ‘Hitler was inspired by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche’. I underlined the sentence, in the presumption that it would come as an objective question and like always, I wanted to show my friends how good I am in Social Studies, especially in History. I did ponder about him for few seconds as he is one who inspired Adolf Hitler. This happened approximately 10 years ago.

I came across his name for the second time when I was in my final year of my Computer Engineering and read Ayn Rand’s ‘The Fountainhead’, I was remotely fascinated to know her inspiration, I did some research and eventually discovered that she was inspired by writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

I was able to comprehend the intellectual humor of Woody Allen and after watching all his films, I came across an article ‘Thus Ate Zarathustra’ written by Woody Allen for ‘The New Yorker’ and thus I came to know about ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’. The admiration for Woody Allen made me look for his books ‘Side Effects, Without Feathers and Getting Even’ in book stores and luckily in the ‘Classics’ section of the book store my eye reads the title of a book ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’, I was thrilled for an intangible reason, I was not sure whether I need to buy it or not?, I was holding the book in my hand and decided to turn few pages, the introduction section had a quote

“A testing and a questioning hath been all my travelling -- and verily, one must also learn to answer such questioning! That, however, is my taste --”,

I decided to buy the book – thus started my journey into Nietzsche’s works.