Nietzsche on the Blonde Beast By Brian Simpson

I was looking at Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, (Vintage Books, New York, 1989), edited by Walter Kauffmann. I was always interested by Nietzsche’s account of the “blond beast,” which was misused by later National Socialists. Hating them, I wondered if there was any basis at all to their misuse. To begin, Nietzsche first discusses the blond beast on page 40: “One cannot fail to see at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory; this hidden care needs to erupt from time to time; the animal has to get out again and go back to the wilderness; the Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings – they all shared this need.” (pp. 40-41)

On this Professor Kaufmann says in a footnote that this is not a racial concept, and not Nordic, the blondness presumably metaphorically refers to a lion. Be that as it may be, Nietzsche later writes of the “pack of blond beasts of prey, a conqueror and master race.” (p. 86) Nietzsche also says that the noble races have “left behind them the concept of “Barbarian” wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays a consciousness of it and even pride in it.” (p. 41) Nietzsche then refers to the “blond Germanic beast,” saying; “The deep and icy mistrust the German still arouses today whenever he gets into a position of power is an echo of that inextinguishable horror with which Europe observed for centuries that raging of the blond Germanic beast.”

I think that there is more than enough fire and brimstone to arouse the military aggression that the National Socialists, and socialists in general, is based upon. While much of the Dissent right loves Nietzsche, I believe that he is no friend for us conservatives.

https://counter-currents.com/2010/07/nietzsche-on-conservatism/print/

“The following is section no. 43 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.

43. Whispered to the conservatives. — What was not known formerly, what is known, or might be known, today: a reversion, a return in any sense or degree is simply not possible. We physiologists know that. Yet all priests and moralists have believed the opposite — they wanted to take mankind back, to screw it back, to a former measure of virtue. Morality was always a bed of Procrustes. Even the politicians have aped the preachers of virtue at this point: today too there are still parties whose dream it is that all things might walk backwards like crabs. But no one is free to be a crab. Nothing avails: one must go forward — step by step further into decadence (that is my definition of modern “progress”). One can check this development and thus dam up degeneration, gather it and make it more vehement and sudden: one can do no more.”