Nietzsche, Europe, Globalism.

Nietzsche believed in the idea of the good European guy, kind of an honest human who was more complex. In the 1880s, he mainly focused on the European civilization. Even if his dream was the discovery of New Mexico, especially Oaxaca, he never examined the life of that Mayan king during the classical era – jax pac – whose name was the same as one of his books : Dawn. Yet, he wasn’t skilled at languages, both his Italian and English linguistic knowledge were limited. And as for his Russian language, it was non-existent. Only his French learning was correct, especially his French reading. If we consider contemporary Europe, we can imagine that Nietzsche was overwhelmed by a process that was neither ontological nor really cultural yet, but strictly functional and useful. He – who denied that virtues of philology went even to get more over them – seldom gave up his fundamental tendency for the classical roots of Arts and Literature. Especially Hellenistic literature and philosophy. Nietzsche knew how to anticipate the different drifts which threatened this gigantic indentity building.

The purposes and the issues of this junction of geographical and historical strengths have been at heart of his work several times. He thought that the individual features were threatened by the natural instinct of gregarious herd.

His remarks about Germany were so often antagonistic that his attraction for the exile around the world shouldn’t be seen as only due to the physiological matters linked to the body climate.

Yet from the beginning of his life, Nietzsche considered himself as an European citizen rather than only a German inhabitant. At the age of fifteen years old, il drafted a short story which title is “Capri and Helgoland”, in which he deals with the Italian, Swiss, German typologies. At the beginning of the story, the main character, von Adelsberg, proclaims : “We are pilgrims in this world : our homeland is everywhere and nowhere, and the sun shines for everyone of us. We are the world citizens, the earth is our kingdom !”.

Declaration from the back of his youth that sounds now more than ever as topical as the globalist tenet is now the best winner of nations.