File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9811, message 128


From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: The Faustian Imperium - Caesar's Legions Return to Conciousness
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:06:48 -0500


More and more it seems that Beyond Good and Evil was intended by Nietzsche
as a 100 year alarm clock intended to reawaken the spirit of Caesar's
legions. It is a primer, indeed, an instruction manual of sorts for guiding
this emergent phenomenon. Who among us, my friends, cannot sense the fateful
shift of power away from the decadent Washington-New York axis to the
garrison outposts of the becoming imperium. Here, in remote corners
scattered throughtout the far flung imperium, a more robust, more
psychically healthy will-to-power has begun to ruthlessly seek its
historical destiny.

'here the prospect free, the spirit exalted' - But there is an opposite kind
of man who is also on the heights and for whom the prospect is also free -
buth who looks down.   BGE 286

My question is this - what is the essence of this spirit? Is it an atavistic
recurrence? What drives men to slip the hot-house bonds of a decadent
civilization rather than succumbing to its siren call?

Zarathustra going under... the world as spoil...   The Becoming Imperium...

John T. Duryea





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