Dr. Stephen Hicks logically moves through the political ideas that led to the rise of the Nazis socialist state and thus the erosion of and finally the total collapse of individual freedoms. The comments below are some my thoughts after considering the philosophies of Nietzsche and the Nazis socialist state in view of current legislation being considered in Congress.

Comments:

Dr. Stephen Hicks could have focused on many famous philosophers and or writers who attempt through their writings and philosophies to create a new world order. A world ruled by man outside the authority and morality of God. Some of the reviews spoke to the unfairness of connecting the philosophies of Nietzsche to Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. I find them intellectually dishonest, and unwilling to examine the basic cause and effect in the professor’s argument. Nietzsche proclaimed that “God was dead” and thus proceeded to develop his new world where a super man would not only rule but would bring genocide to millions of the less worthy. You know the people who are calculated as disposable by the god like man. As I listened to the Quotes of Friedrich Nietzsche, I was horrified thinking that so many could and do fall for this disturbed man’s teachings and I ask “what great contribution to the development of man did this self serving man provide for us all?”He is just another pathetic example of those who exalt their selves with a false sense of worth. Just another miserable man that sees freedom for the individual as a threat to imposing his world view. If helping the less fortunate, caring for the infirm, and putting the good of others first make us weak folk and we belong to the “slave morality”then I will happily become weak so my neighbor can flourish!

Dr. Hicks points out that there is still an on going battle between free men and those who would enslave us through perverse philosophies that demand we surrender our liberties to the dictatorship imposed by the socialist state. A socialist state that attempts to replace itself as a god directing every facet of one’s life as to the purposes that the state will define. He did not attempt to single out Mr. Nietzsche but rather convincingly point by point, quote by quote demonstrates the cause and effect of these ideas. Weather or not the Nazi party misused Nietzsche’s works, the facts remain that they did use similar arguments to push forward their perverse world view, first on their nation and then the world. The result is well documented to the extent of destruction, (the effect), experienced by those who were deemed weak and disposable by those who proclaimed a superior, higher wisdom concerning the worth and order of men,(the cause). So weather one can construct a link directly to the Nazi party or not is not the point. The point is that your world view has consequences, it determines what you value, your relationships with your neighbor, your response to conflict and the importance you place on life itself. If the world view devalues life and individual liberty there is no limit to the atrocities one might justify to obtain power. “The ends justify the means” is the motto of the socialist state. Do and say anything to obtain power and when you have power put down with all means any who dare to challenge.

In the end Nietzsche elevates himself above all of his fellow man. Judging them as inferior, without worth, unable to make decisions for themselves, mere pawns of the over man and or state, his writings express a hopelessness for man kind. This hopelessness is one that can only have remedy through the destruction of individual freedom and the extermination of whoever the powerful choose for the purpose of accomplishing their goals and the improvement of mankind. Another man had an idea seen in the quote below that also had a cause and effect. His name was Thomas Jefferson. He believed that “all men were created equally” “that they were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”. And that these rights were not negotiable.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

If this isn’t possible for you, I recommend trying to purchase a memory card pre-loaded with the mod files, though I understand they’re harder to find on eBay these days.

Otherwise every other step in this guide can be done with any Mac or PC.