More than anything on earth man enjoys tragedies, bullfights and crucifixions; and when he invented Hell for himself, behold, it was his heaven on earth.       "THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA"       Part 3 "THE CONVALESCENT" No. 2 In the marketplace no one believes in Higher Men. And if you want to speak there, very well, do so. But the mob blink and say: "We are all equal, man is but equal before God . But now this God has died. And let us not be equal before the mob.       "THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA" part 4       "OF HIGHER MEN" No. 1 For today the petty people have become lord and master: they preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long etcetera of petty virtues. What is womanish, what stems from slavishness and especially from the mob hotchpotch; that now wants to become master of man's destiny- o disgust! disgust! disgust!       "THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA"       Part 4 "OF HIGHER MEN" No. 3                                               —Friedrich Nietzsche And let us face it, in a market oriented society, an enemy is good for business... Until such attitudes change, there will always be enemies around to satisfy the simpleminded, and to tell fools where their duty lies. "USTINOV IN RUSSIA"                                               —Peter Ustinov
			The Masses
		Conformity confers survivability on society, be it bands of hunter gatherers or current ethnic or national societies. If societies were composed entirely of individualistic, selfish, free thinking members, competition with societies composed of conforming members would be impossible. Blind, thoughtless conformity holds the masses together. Many factors such as language, common need, geography, tradition contribute to conformity. Gullibility of the masses is essential for conformity. They can be made to believe anything; but only if it is in keeping with their inherent qualities of self preservation.       The destructive story of man against man and nature throughout history was only possible by indoctrination of the masses in one form or another. The masses are swayed by clothing political and economic goals in moral precepts which have little or nothing to do with the real goals. Questioning these precepts leads to ostracism at best and prison and execution at worst. There is no question of right or wrong, but only the need to defend and expand a set of customs to which the masses have been made to feel comfortable. Indoctrination of the masses with fear of losing a way of life to which they are accustomed has been turned into mass convulsions for the sake of political and economic power in the name of "converting the heathen," "retaking the holy land," "spreading Islam," "freeing the slaves," "saving the world for democracy," "stopping aggression," to name only a few idealistic slogans. These convulsions have produced nothing but devastation of humanity and eventually, worse for humanity, devastation of the earth. Among animals, only a so called "thinking" human can tell himself he is fighting and dying for such fables.       A perfect example is the fiasco romantically called "desert storm." Only a minority of US citizens ever heard of Iraq. They did not know or care that it was in Iraq one of the first civilizations on earth arose about 4000 years ago; that struggles among Semites and between Semites and non-Semites have been going on from about that time to the present; that the area called Iraq was dominated by the British and the French for approximately the last 200 years; that Saddam Hussein came to power as a counterforce to this domination; that a portion of land belonging to Iraq was arbitrarily annexed to Kuwait when Kuwait became an independent state in 1961, after development of the oil industry in the area by Britain and the US; or that a treaty between Britain and Kuwait protects Britain's oil interests; or that Kuwait is ruled by an unscrupulous absolute monarch, no less unscrupulous or absolute than Hussein. Instead, the unspoken need to protect US oil interest and to prevent the unimaginable loss by the US populace of the possibility to drive their automobiles when and where they chose; plus the "silent" influence of the Jewish lobby to protect Israel resulted a mass hysteria in the name of "stopping aggression." Yellow ribbons adorned fence posts, trees, radio antennas, women "s breasts and bumper stickers proclaimed support for the war or obscene remarks about Hussein. Troops killed by "friendly fire" were honored as heroes. Rather than give in to a renewal of domination by the West, Iraq has continued to support Hussein with the resulting deprivation. All this might even be described as trivial when compared with the destruction of wildlife in and around the Persian Gulf.       As a result of constant mass indoctrination, most US citizens have been made to believe the US is the most "moral" nation on earth. They believe the US has the "moral" right to set itself up as the model for the world in the area of human rights. It declares itself the final judge of other nations and peoples in this regard. Nothing could be further from the truth than these assertions. Historical facts, in large part unobtainable from a practical standpoint, deny these convictions. The reality of its exploits in Mexico and Central America, Germany, Chile, Iran, Cuba, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other countries are unknown to most US citizens. In fact, few care. It is the one country in the so called developed world which does not provide health care for its citizens. Even taken alone, the development and use of the atomic bomb was the greatest crime against nature and humanity in world history.       Just as other animal species, H. sapiens has created habitats for himself. These habitats consist of more than a dwelling place. In addition, they consist of all that make up his way of life; from the language he speaks, to the god he worships, to the car he drives, to the number of children he produces, to the football team he favors, to the food he eats, to what he considers his rights and pleasures. Just as any other species he fights and dies for this habitat, in no sense for so called ideals, no matter how loudly and widely they are proclaimed. The masses can only be indoctrinated with ideas in keeping with basic instincts of habitat preservation. These basic instincts have been made use of throughout history by rulers, generals, politicians, business consortiums and other "leaders" from an unknown Sumerian ruler to Shell Oil Corporation for their own ends. The art of instilling fear of loss of habitat into the masses has made the history of mankind what it is, with its continual upheavals and destruction.       For most of history, the masses have made the best of their lot. Before the eighteenth, century most of the population were farmers or artisans pursuing the same livelihood from one generation to the next. Work and recreation revolved around traditional life styles with pride of achievement. The idea of equality was unheard of. It was only with the preachings and writings of countless social conscious zealots, inspired by Rousseau and Marx and the like that the masses were made to believe they had to strive for the goal of equality. They soon realized this goal would give free reign to their long smoldering greed. Since equality of intellect and creativity is an impossibility, economic equality has become the goal of the masses. Strife to achieve this goal has made greed a necessity for self preservation. The strife for economic equality among individuals, legislated by governments world-wide in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, allowed for greater use and distribution of the earth's resources with its consequent pollution and destruction. The masses, accustomed to the idea of the right and necessity of each individual to struggle for his own ends, will never be indoctrinated into creating a world in which procreation, production and construction are decreased to a level possible without the pollution and destruction created by the overutilization of the earth's resources. Because of this, destruction and pollution will continue at an ever greater rate, to the point human life cannot be sustained.       Possibly the actions of H. sapiens will be no more devastating than an impact by a large meteorite.