Same World, Different Day

There was a conspiracy launched by one of the most capable and trustworthy voices in centuries that many people hardly remember. In spite of the profound credibility and penetration that this voice had in modern times the conspiracy failed to gain traction,  failed to go "viral".

One might ask why?

I think for a conspiracy to be successful it must always play upon the zeitgeist of the times. It must tickle the ears that hear it and feed fear, distrust, suspicion, and hatred of one against another which is the spirit of every human age.

"With your values and formulae of good and evil, ye exercise power, ye valuing ones: and that is your secret love, and the sparkling, trembling, and overflowing of your souls..."(This Spoke Zarathustra, 34. Self-Surpassing)

You see here the keen observation of Nietzsche as he answers the question of why, in that ancient mythical garden, that the knowledge of good and evil was forbidden to man.Why the first conspiracy seems to have failed is that it started with ideas that are antithetical to the normal social ordering that follows on the theme further elucidated by Nietzsche:

"Let it be very justice for the world to become full of the storms of our vengeance"... "Vengeance will we use, and insult, against all who are not like us" (This Spoke Zarathustra, 29. The Tarantulas)

We can fully apprehend this logic as lived experience and every inclination formed by this logic becomes a god to rule over us. It takes shape as a manipulation of one's passions with the intellect in fast pursuit; Thought rarely precedes passion. We have been assured in accordance with the above mentioned failed conspiracy that the pathway to peace and truth is narrow and hard and few find it. I believe Nietzsche had grasp of the truth and understood the path only to reject it. He was honest, at least.

His reported last words before his death were: “Mutter, ich bin dumm (Mother, I am dumb).” The modern west is at a similar juncture as was Nietzsche in his time only not as sighted, nor honest, nor likely to meet a better end.