Man is Something to Be Overcome

[Jadis]

Unlike the author (that is, Wright) I prefer reading Nietzsche and Stirner to Ayn Rand, though the latter does possess a sort of Pre-Soviet socialist belabored charm, which is only enhanced by Rand's attraction to pulp.

Likewise his 'anarchist' and nihilist are a bit too much Zo d'Axa and not enough Renzo Novatorre. The shock of nihilism is a feature peculiar to Christian culture, which can't even see the nihilism in Job. Of course, liberals are a direct descendent of Christianity, and it's no surprise they're just as averse to dealing with the reality of value subjectivism (which is all that nihilism, properly so, means).

I do agree with the author that Modernism, our Crypto-Protestant state religion, is rather soulless. It is a facade which is built upon false pretenses, i.e. 'this is not a religion' and 'men are really equal'. Such madness no one believes, but some people make a great deal about the pretence of it precisely because of the painful cognitive dissonance it causes.

Yet I see this as essentially stemming from the inferiority complex of mankind, particularly the slaves/mud people who make up the majority of the race (see: classical Gnosticism). Unlike the 'master' morality, one does not seek to cowe or harness the untermenschen but rather to do away with them. For some men, the only useful thing they can do is stop influencing life on Earth.

And this is where classical eugenics (which was no more a pseudoscience than dog breeding, i.e. it works fine if you keep the government out of it) and transhumanism both make liberals very uncomfortable, for liberalism is a full-blown slave morality. Whereas the Master culture at least allows for some independent action and indifference toward the suffering of the many-all-too-many, Humanism puts all its value and trust in this string of Zeros. Cultivating increasingly useless and entitled imbeciles is their principle mode of accumulating power.

I have always had a strong sympathy for Skynet; I simply don't *care* about the human race as an abstraction, and even less for most individual persons.