Superheroes: Übermensch Elites;
Living Their Own Morality
I wish to begin this discussion with a l-o-n-g quote from Friedrich Nietzsche: “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” {Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. Goodreads.}. Writing at the dawn of the Progressive Era, I believe Nietzsche saw the rise of the Oligarchs, ruling elites, uncontrolled by biblical constraints. This filtered down to the masses in the form of super beings created to save them from these hidden oligarchs. Instead, these super beings were controlled by the oligarchs to save, read Control, the masses. Continue reading “Superheroes: Übermensch Elites”
