The Uberman As Paper Tiger

The Christian Sense of Wrong and Right

The Highwaymen made famous a song written by Jarvis and Cook about two kids raised . . .

In the crystal sense of wrong and right
We were born and raised in black and white . . . 

but the very concept of right and wrong--of morality--has come under serious attack in the past 150 years.

Nietzsche was perceptive and prescient upon insisting that there was a connection between God and ethics, between God and morals.  Kill God, and anything goes.  But, for Nietzsche there was a "trade off".  Kill God, and we kill off morals.  But we are left with man.  Man can grow and develop to be an Uberman, a man with a big chest, a being who would take the place of God and determine his own morals, a morality that was worthy a superman.  Nietzsche sought to kill God off in order to enable man to take His place and assert himself as a demi-god. 

The West has lived with the notion of a dead God and big-chested men for over 150 years.

Deceptive, Misleading and Depraved

National Cognitive Dissonance

Ah, the hypocrisy of it all.  Festooned on page three of  the NZ Herald this morning is the latest beneficiary cause celebre  being played up by left wing politicians.  A mother of two, on the Domestic Purposes Benefit, is threatening to become a prostitute so she can afford tertiary training.  The welfare payment benefit she receives is not enough to cover the extra costs of tuition.  The headline screams: "Mum: Prostitution to Pay for Studies."

Why, we ask, is this up front and centre in the news?  Why would two left wing politicians take this amoral woman up as a cause celebre for beneficiaries, parading her before the media, flying her to Wellington to parade her at press conferences?  It smacks of high-order hypocrisy.

How Has It Come to This . . .? Part II

Murder Most Academic

Theodore Dalrymple's latest piece in City Journal provokes the lament of Theoden facing the destruction of his realm, "How did it come to this?"

We have broken the piece into two parts.  The first dealt with sadistic murders committed by a PhD candidate in the UK and the academic establishment which facilitated his crimes.  The second, below, deals with the academic treatment of his victims by UK elites.