On 01-04-98 Frank Masingill wrote to Day Brown... 
 FM>    So far (grin) you have escaped the "Nazi" nomenclature, Day.  I 
 FM> can't think (chuckle) it will be for long!!! 
     This gonna be fun Frank, lemmee quote: 
"I have no patience with actors who try to mimic life, with worn  
out, used-up people who swathe themselves in wisdom so as to appear   
'objective',- with histrionic agitators who wear magic hoods on   
their straw heads,- with ambitious artists who try to pass for   
ascetics and priests yet are, at bottom, only tragic buffoons.  
 
And I am equally out of patience with those newest speculators in   
idealism, so-called anti-Semites, who parade as Christian-Aryan   
worthies and endeavor to stir up all the asinine elements of the   
nation by that cheapest of propaganda tricks, a *moral attitude*.  
(The ease with which any wretched imposture succeeds in today's 
nation may be attributed to the progressive stultification of the  
public mind.  The reason for this general spread of inanity may be   
found in a diet composed of newspapers, politics, beer, & Wagner's  
music.  Our national vanity and situation and the shaking  palsy  
of current ideas have each done their bit to prepare us for  such  
a diet.) [author's parentheses] Today is extremely rich and in- 
ventive in stimulants; in fact, it depends entirely on  stimulants  
and distilled spirits.  This may explain the prevalence  of  
counterfeit ideals, those most rarefied distillations of the   
spirit, as well as the stale quasi-alcoholic fumes one breathes   
wherever one goes.[ in the halls of power] I wonder how many   
cargoes of fake idealism, fake heroism, and fake eloquence, how   
many tons of compassion liqueur (Brand: La Religion de la   
Souffrance), how many stilts of 'virtuous indignation' for the   
use of the intellectually flat-footed, how many comedians of   
Christian morality we would have to export in order to clear the   
air... Obviously such overproduction opens up splendid commercial   
possibilities: a good business could be done in small ideal-idols   
and the 'idealists' that go with them- I hope someone sufficiently   
enterprising will take up the suggestion. The opportunity to   
'idealize' the entire globe is in our hands! But why speak of   
enterprise here at all? The only things needed are the hands,   
ingenuous, very ingenuous hands... [and don't we have them!] "  
 
I have been a bit free with the translation from Neitzsche's  
German, but it seems so apropos of today's Amerika.  
  
I find it notewothy too, that the next batch of tragic buffoons,  
the Nazis, didn't even read or understand all of the philosophy on   
which they were spozed to base their policy, and that the tragic  
buffoons of demagogic Christians here, didn't catch them at it. 
 
The citation is in the end of Chapter XXVI of his Genealogy of  
Morals of 1887, his next to last work, part IV of Zarathustra. 
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