🌑 How To Overcome Nietzsche?

Or: How to Move from the Übermensch to the Man

“A child becomes a serpent, passing over the cow (the mother), to become Pharaoh.
Nietzsche, who sought the Übermensch, never saw that the true creator is not the warrior — but the one who transcends both father and mother.” (Left): Deities on a Replica of Tutankhamun’s Gilded Shrines © by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. (Right): Friedrich Nietzsche in 1877 © by Gustav-Adolf Schultze, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Nietzsche said: ‘God the Father is dead, and we have killed him.’
But God the Father was never alive.
He was only an excuse — so the son could not reclaim his father’s phallus.
And the mother?
She was never kind.
She only waited for the son to forget how to create himself.”

Nietzsche refers to a statement by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus that war is the father of all good things. The era in which Nietzsche lived was the era of Christian dominance, a time when the sacred, peace-seeking mother reigned. He intended to restore the power and splendor of pre-Christian European civilizations, and pursued this path by favoring war over peace, father over mother, and man over woman. What Nietzsche did was to move in the opposite direction of Christianity, in order to reclaim humanity’s lost power.

It has been assumed that Nietzsche confronted Christianity in a harsh, severe, and warlike manner. But what if this approach of waging war against Christianity is not a sign of his mastery over it? What if Christianity is far more misleading and worse than Nietzsche imagined — so corrupt that even if you fight it or move against it, you still become contaminated? Is it possible to overcome something without fighting it?