When stumbling upon such an impassioned reaction to a book, I tend to take a step back to question my counter-transference and why I feel so strongly. I have despised Nietzsche since I first read him because it reminded me of my adolescent self and all the existential angst that comes from self-actualization. What Daniel has done is provide a valuable tool for those who read Nietzsche at a young age and get sucked into his cult during their formative years. We don’t live in Nietzsche’s world; we live in Fredrik Hayek’s world, whether you like it or not. Sure, Nietzsche would be in horror at neoliberalism. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that his thoughts contributed to what the Austrian economists did by bringing the moral/ethical into the Market rigged to favor the indecent because the indecent sells and making money is good. Hayek also ignored how the Market would influence the political at the expense of the democratic. Whether Hayek intended this outcome or not, it is the reality of the world we live in today because the political is not sovereign from Schumpeter’s entrepreneurs.
When stumbling upon such an impassioned reaction to a book, I tend to take a step back to question my counter-transference and why I feel so strongly. I have despised Nietzsche since I first read him because it reminded me of my adolescent self and all the existential angst that comes from self-actualization. What Daniel has done is provide a valuable tool for those who read Nietzsche at a young age and get sucked into his cult during their formative years. We don’t live in Nietzsche’s world; we live in Fredrik Hayek’s world, whether you like it or not. Sure, Nietzsche would be in horror at neoliberalism. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that his thoughts contributed to what the Austrian economists did by bringing the moral/ethical into the Market rigged to favor the indecent because the indecent sells and making money is good. Hayek also ignored how the Market would influence the political at the expense of the democratic. Whether Hayek intended this outcome or not, it is the reality of the world we live in today because the political is not sovereign from Schumpeter’s entrepreneurs.