Nietzsche still dead!

Someone bothered to find out that his brain was fried by cancer, not syphilis. Apparently in the rush to discredit him after WW2 -- he was blamed for the 'ubermensch' idea by people not inclined to notice how heavily the Nazis modified it -- his descent into dementia was credited to a prostitute.

A bit odd to find anything about a philosopher in the morning paper, but there it was.

Well forgive me, but this is something of a pet peeve of mine: Nietzsche was *not* the source for the Nazis. Certain fascist-leaning academics, with the 'help' of N.'s sister, helped themselves to favor by advancing grossly simplified interpretations after Nazism's distinctive flavor was established.

They kept quiet about the fact that some of N.'s bitterest critiques were of the Germans, and that he had written admiringly of the Jews for maintaining their identity despite centuries of being dispersed to the winds.

Bushido is an entirely different story.