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Nietzsche was the first and greatest Feminist! Truly! I will reveal this truth to you now. Who could forget the opening line of Beyond Good and Evil, wherein the old philologist says it plainly: SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what then?
That Nietzsche himself goes on to speak from a masculine perspective in no way detracts from his feminism, for he was the progenitor of all of "postmodern" thought, and without him there could have been no Foucault, or Derrida, or Deleuze
Postmodern--that much maligned word, which is clumsy because it refers to the attempts of men to articulate a fundamentally FEMININE way of being; for thousands of years philosophy had been an exclusively male endeavor, because its territory was the wild frontier
Frontiers are tamed by men, and in the male soul, the frontier exists to be conquered, an inescapable compulsion. But once it has been conquered--and Kant was such a conqueror--then it can become settled, and then woman can join man, and make there a home
And now that woman is here, what a home she has found! Just as Christianity was the feminizing of Judaism, (remember that Jesus called himself the Bridegroom of the church), postmodernism is the feminizing of philosophy, or to borrow a word, the deterritorialization
In a way one could say that philosophers wandered the desert for millennia, that the Germans found and inhabited the promised land, and that Nietzsche came not to abolish philosophy but to fulfill it
Such audacity! But the old philologist, an expert at reading texts, was himself audacious! He named his life story Ecce Homo, behold the man! the words of Pontius Pilate as he showed Jesus to the crowd
What Nietzsche discovered and gave to man, like Prometheus stealing fire from god, was what woman had known all along, namely, the FEMININE MODALITY OF KNOWING, an epistemology of immanence and immediacy
Long have I heard men of the Right Wing mock and belittle the proclamations of feminist hubris, that they shall invent new sciences of physics and biology which will challenge the linear and rational male perception of the world
The male gazeâ-how women long for itâ-and how they hate themselves for longing! In the eyes of a man it is not only woman that becomes an object but nature, god, the earth, the sea, the sun and the moon! How can he be so obtuse?
Indeed there are irrational ways of knowing, which prior to Nietzsche were the exclusive appanage of Woman, and which now have been spilled like the blood of Christ, the ink in which all modern books are written, even by men
In the male world, which is the rational world, man's world, we speak not of OUR truth but of THE truth. In the masculine mind, the things of highest value must spring from the lap of Being, the intransitory, the hidden god, the "thing-in-itself"
In the postmodern world, which is Nietzsche's world, woman's world, what constitutes the value of truth is precisely that it may be insidiously related to deception, tied to and involved with a wicked, seemingly opposite thing
It is an indelicate act, no? to render the ineffable feminine into words. Alas, it is a uniquely male compulsion, brutal and inhuman, to commit such an act.
But for all the violence that it does to the male mind, the caress of Nyarlethotep, Nyarlethot(ep)istemology, it is an older and more powerful way of looking at the world, which is why it has supplanted nearly all masculine ways of being (all but one)
Now that we have this knowledge, we cannot unlearn it. It is the Necronomicon, the Zahir, the fruit of the tree of good and evil. https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1019264839422599168
Nietzsche who understood all too well what was human, spoke from experience when he warned us against staring into voids; in the end by fighting with monsters he became a monster, and the transvaluation of all values was to be the consummation of monstrousity
Lest you are not convinced, I ask you, what is the feminist project, if not the transvaluation of all values? The philosopher's stone of feminist alchemy is to transmute women into men, and men into women, in the spirit and in some cases even the body
And yet and as I have said elsewhere, the Feminist project has fallen short of Nietzsche's ambition, though in every way it is the most faithful of all human undertakings to the project laid out in The Antichrist https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1038864085213896705
Finally, suppose that woman is the sun, Nietzsche is far from the first man to suffer from exposure to the radiance of the divine feminine, and he will not be the last. To forgive him for taking his revelation to extremes, it is the CHRISTIAN thing to do.
For already she cometh, the glowing one,âher love to the earth cometh! Innocence, and creative desire, is all solar love!
See there, how she cometh impatiently over the sea! Do ye not feel the thirst and the hot breath of her love?
See there, how she cometh impatiently over the sea! Do ye not feel the thirst and the hot breath of her love?
