Nietzsche argues that the exceptional person should not seek to overthrow the rule that makes them exceptional in the first place. His example is women who, instead of treating their abnormal thirst for scholarship as a distinction, seek to disrupt the status of women in general.
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The West allows people to dissent, just to think in their own little boxes, and don’t give a damn. Doesn’t bother to ban books because 40% of the population can’t read them anyway. This is how liberalism rules.
Alexander’s letter to Darius after the Battle of Issus:
“Now that I have prevailed in battle — over your generals and satraps earlier, and now over you and your own forces — and the gods have given me possession of the country, I am also responsible for all the men who fought on your side, survived the battle, and fled to me, and who remain with me not unwillingly, but have joined my campaign voluntarily.
So regard me as master of all of Asia and come into my presence; if you fear you may suffer some harm at my hands, send some of your friends to receive pledges. Approach me and ask for your mother, wife, children, and anything else you like, and receive them; anything you persuade me to give will be yours.
And in future, whenever you send word to me, address yourself to me as the king of Asia and not as an equal, and let me know, as the master of all that was yours, if you have need of anything. Otherwise, I plan to deal with you as a criminal. But if you contest the kingship, hold your ground, fight for it, and do not flee, since I am coming after you wherever you are.”
