A Vision of the Superman

[Savage]

Funny and interesting chapter, progressive and undogmatic. I recognize many angles of view.

A Vision of the Superman
Viktoria MacMagnus
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We must have a vision, an ideal to strive towards. Nature does not tolerate mediocrity. In the long term, only the excellent survive.

“I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.”¹

Life on earth is engaged in a process of evolution which can only go in one of three ways for humankind. Either extinction due to some kind of disaster, a falling back into a precivilised dark age, or the creation of a race of super beings.

The Superman would have characteristics such as being fierce, brave, creative, high intelligence, excellent health, tallness, fitness, strong will-power, logical and not superstitious, competitive yet always with an acute sense of fair play, dynamic, fertile, honourable, dutiful, good humoured, eating only healthy food, and not at all materialistic. Maybe that list conveys the idea.

“Could you create a god? - So be silent about all gods! But you could surely create the Superman.”

“Perhaps not you yourself, my brothers! But you could transform yourselves into the forefathers and ancestors of the Superman: and let this be your finest creating.”¹

Immortality, and life after death, is achievable only through reproduction. If you breed with a partner similar to yourself, and your descendents always keep to a particular community containing copies of their own genes, then people who are you (in all aspects but your memory) will be born in future. However, obviously, if you can up-breed and improve your own quality of offspring, your lineage will last longer and will enjoy a better quality of life. So, it is sensible to choose a mate from your own race, who happens to have genetic qualities which, when combined with your own, could result in someone better than yourself.

This realisation about life is what Nietzsche terms the “ascending movement” and the “Yes” to life. He defines it as “well constitutedness, power, beauty, self-affirmation on earth.”²

Those who live for an imagined after-life for their soul in Heaven, exclude themselves from this glorious future on earth. They, like the deliberately non-reproductive, the homosexuals or the race-mixers, are part of the “descending movement” or the “No” to life, defined as “decay, chronic degeneration, sickening.”² They have no appreciation of the importance of a vested interest in the genetic quality of the people of the future nor in the condition of this planet. To believe in a personal afterlife is to be hostile to this life. Effectively, as Nietzsche points out, it is choosing death.

“No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!”¹

The Superman would find the whole idea of an afterlife repugnant. Nietzsche says: “For this is your truth: You are too pure for the dirt of the words: revenge, punishment, reward, retribution.”¹

The Supermen would behave in the way considered to be right and virtuous in their own judgement. There is no virtue in obeying a “thou shalt”, and being motivated by a fear of punishment or a reward of some kind.

The Superman rejects “thou shalt”, which is an insult to his purity. He replaces it with “I will”, and his only conceivable reward for virtue is his own dignity. He does the right thing because he is true to himself.

“Supreme rule of conduct: even when alone, one must not ‘let oneself go’.”³

What virtue is there in someone who only does good because he is looking for reward or is afraid of punishment? None at all! Neither would the Superman wish to coerce others into behaving according to his own perceived virtues. These virtues define him and they are his alone. He does not need to declare them as law.

Also, in not smoking, or not eating unhealthily, for example, the Superman is not depriving himself of something that he craves. Rather, he genuinely prefers not to do these things. To force yourself to abstain from a harmful behaviour that gives you pleasure cannot truly be called virtue even though it is better than indulgence. As well as causing ill humour in the personality, it would not be a demonstration of good instinct, but be a suppression of decadent tendencies. The Superman is not a self-restrained decadent. He is in no way decadent.

In the dark ages, when the pagan Visigoths, a Swedish Germanic tribe, subjugated Spain, Christian missionaries came to convert them away from the pagan gods, Thunor and Wotan. The missionaries held up the Ten Commandments as examples of morality, whereupon the Visigoth leaders flew into a rage, hurling the bibles away and exclaiming that they had never heard of these “sins” or the very notion of them. They cursed the missionaries for trying to pollute their minds. (From the word Visigoth, we get the word “vigot”, which has over time become the word “bigot”.)

I have said that the Superman would not believe in or even speculate about any after death existence for his individual consciousness. To do so would be utterly decadent and would lead to neglect of the real world. The Superman would dislike the concept of reincarnation, or of Heaven. His only meaningful immortality, and the nearest thing to a reward he could hope for because of his actions on earth, is genetic immortality. This makes the superman infinitely more virtuous than anyone who hopes for pie in the sky when you die. In fact, the Superman does not idealise peaceful utopia, even on earth. The “ascending movement”, the “Yes” to life demands no end - no peaceful resting place. Struggle and competition are essential to the Superman. The eternal striving, the permanent challenge, are what drives him and enthuses him.

It will be impossible for many people to imagine how anyone could feel this way, but then that only serves to demonstrate the huge gap between mensch and ubermensch.

“Yes, you too, my friends, will be terrified by my wild wisdom; and perhaps you will flee from it together with my enemies.”¹

It is relevant to note that the Viking heaven, Valhalla, is a place where Vikings spend half the time enjoying a bloodthirsty battle, and the other half drinking in a huge beer hall. The psychology which characterises the Viking idea of an enjoyable way to spend eternity is starkly at odds with the vague Christian concept of gentleness and harp music, or the Buddhist state of nothingness (Nirvana), or the Moslem afterlife, filled with all the things forbidden to them on earth. It is peculiar to the Nordic race to have an afterlife which is not a paradise. This gulf, which separates the Nordic mentality from that of all other races, is evidence that Nordics (at least in the past) are the closest race to becoming the Supermen.

However, it is not war that enthuses the Superman. Rather, it is the struggle for advancement. Futile wars are decadent. The priority would be to expand in numbers and to protect genetic quality.

Decadence and degeneracy are inevitable in a non-eugenic civilisation. The Superman would not be a tame, domesticated, civilised man. His nature is to be a barbarian, a “blonde beast”, yet this is “subliminated into creativity”, as Nietzsche puts it.

The future society of the Supermen would consist of artisans, warriors and farmers. There would be a Spartan distaste of all comforts and conveniences which result in the weakening of body and mind. The well-organised society would consist of: a healthy mind in a healthy body in a healthy environment. Only activities which make a positive contribution to this sensible world view would occur. This would not have to be dictated. A degree of conferring is only practical, but all unhealthy activities would be shunned instinctively.

I think of the Superman as being Nature’s “will to power”, to use Nietzsche’s phrase in a slightly new context. Nature designed all living creatures to function as “gene machines”, (Richard Dawkins’ term) to spread copies of themselves as efficiently and as widely as possible. This resulted in an arms race between increasingly divergent organisms, culminating in the evolution of humankind, and the ice ages caused an accumulation of certain characteristics in that branch of humanity which lived through this harsh climate.

The Superman would be born out of certain northern European people as the next stage in evolution. Yet, this next stage is particularly significant in that it could be compared to the time in the past when amphibians first evolved, allowing life to emerge from the sea onto the land.

(Just as amphibians are not ‘superior’ to fish, but merely a new development, one could potentially say the same for the Superman. Whether one admires the “qualities” of the Superman or not is relative. The Superman is a step up from perspective of the White man, but there is no point in making comparisons with other races which it would be preposterously “racist” to expect to conform to White values).

“You solitaries of today, you who have seceded from society, you shall one day be a people: from you, who have chosen out yourselves, shall a chosen people spring - and from this chosen people, the Superman.”¹

When life evolved the ability to survive on the land, after millions of years spent in the oceans, it heralded a breakthrough in the spreading of genetic material. Suddenly there was a wide open environment accessible to be populated.

With the coming of the Superman, the first ever species of genetically self-understanding life, a new environment will rapidly open itself out. Space, the entire universe, is the next step for the life evolving on earth. The Superman will be perfectly constructed to venture out to other planets, fully understanding that their natural purpose is to do so.

A quote from George Bernard Shaw’s classic play, “Man and Superman”, seems to sum up the reason why the Superman, with his understanding of the forces that brought him into existence, should be a breakthrough in terms of the advancement of life.

“Just as Life, after ages of struggle, evolved that wonderful bodily organ the eye, so that the living organism could see where it was going and what was coming to help or threaten it, and thus avoid a thousand dangers that formerly slew it, so it is evolving today a mind’s eye that shall see, not the physical world, but the purpose of life, and thereby enable the individual to work for that purpose instead of thwarting and baffling it by setting up shortsighted personal aims as at present.”⁴
The whole reason that natural selection works as a mechanism for the advancement of evolution, is because only the attributes which are advantageous to an organism’s survival are inevitably, by definition, those attributes which are passed on to future generations, in the long term.

Scattered through many northern European individuals are precisely those features which I have mentioned as being characteristic of the Superman. These are qualities, not because I personally regard them as positive attributes, but because they are advantageous to survival in the long term. In the competition for survival, the decadent, and the degenerate must weeded out through their sickness and their inability to compete with the finest, most sensible, most fertile, best constructed people. Even if the White race withers far below its present numbers, the remaining Whites will probably have been refined to have a higher concentration of these life-positive attributes than was previously the case.

Those who tended to mix with other races will do so, which would apply particularly to the lowest social stratum, degenerates would have made choices leading to lower fertility, and a select few would have remained discriminating regarding standards of behaviour.

The various qualities of the Superman are scattered throughout the genetics of the individual people of the north: physical beauty and stature, skills in organisation and industry, high levels of literacy, creative genius in the arts, aggression and tenacity in the face of adversity.

But it also takes the necessity for men and women to make the giant leap, in evolutionary terms, of desiring to create offspring who are better than they are. Only those with such an attitude are going to achieve being the parents of the next stage beyond man. One must be “the victor, the self-conqueror, the ruler of your senses, the lord of your virtues.” “You should build beyond yourself”, “You should propagate yourself not only forward, but upward!”¹

“May your spirit and your virtue serve the meaning of the earth, my brothers: and may the value of all things be fixed anew by you. To that end you should be fighters! To that end you should be creators!”¹

¹ Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friedrich “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”
² Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friedrich “The Anti-Christ”
³ Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friedrich “Twilight of the Idols”
⁴ Bernard Shaw, George “Man and Superman”