When captains of industry and fascist leaders have animals around them, they are not domestic poodles but Great Danes and lion cubs. They are there to add spice to power through the terror they inspire. So blind is the murderous fascist colossus in face of nature that he conceives of animals only as means of humiliating humans. Nietzsche’s unjust accusation of Schopenhauer and Voltaire, that they “knew how to disguise [their] hatred of certain men and things as pity toward animals,”22 applies truly to the fascist butcher.
