Boiled and stuffed Neitzsche's influence on twentieth century politics

Boiled and stuffed Neitzche's influence on twentieth century politics


fiction
edward w pritchard

Story has no meaning, except to reinforce by example that attempts at irony do not provide profit to author


Boiled and stuffed after his eventual death following ten years of incapacitation by paralysis Nietzsche stuffed and incarnate was carried about Europe for exhibition as the times required.

Ironically many German soldiers who often carried copies of Thus Spoke Zarathustra into battle and who were later blown to shreds by the new American made scrap metal bombs were united bodily as well as spiritually with their dead hero Nietzsche. As the body of Nietzsche was carried about the trenches of world war one on a pole it was often the target of allied bombs and when hit missing pieces of the boiled and stuffed body of Nietzsche was repaired with actual pieces of bone and flesh from German and even French and British soldiers. The uniforms of the Allied soldiers were never added to the boiled and stuffed incarnate body of Nietzsche for as every school boy knows from the study of philosophy the influence of Nietzsche on twentieth century thought has been anything but uniform.

By World War two the idea of carrying the boiled and stuffed body of the dead philosopher Nietzsche about on a pole seemed rather passe and quaint. New methods of warfare and new ways of looking at the world doomed the idolization of the philosopher Nietzsche. However it might be added the American President Richard Nixon had a strange interest in the work of Nietzsche and often consulted the body as a whole of Nietzsche's work to help in his preparation for war against the people of Vietnam. Where the right wing fascination with the theories of Nietzsche will re-appear in the twenty first century is unknown.
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