Charlie Sheen, Das Übermensch

Charlie Sheen is my hero, and if you're even halfway smart, he's your hero, too. If the last couple of weeks have conclusively proven anything, it's that all men aren't created equal: there is Charlie and the there's the rest of us. his is a higher form of existence that you need a mercury surfboard to properly process. Or a lot of cocaine. But I don't have either of those things and I doubt that very many of you do, either.

Charlie walks with goddesses and fires torpedoes of truth. Verily, he is winning and isn't shy about us letting us know it. How do you spend your days? 'Nuff said.

Most of the Goddamned Liberal Media has watched Mr. Sheen over the last several weeks and reported what they saw as a pharmaceutical and id fuelled public breakdown. But no one should trust a journalism school graduate further than they can be thrown. They wouldn't recognize Winning if it snuck up behind them and slit their fucking throats.

Most importantly, journalists aren't intellectuals, nor are they schooled in the rich philosophical traditions of the West. As such, they cannot be expected to recognize Charlie Sheen and Winning for what they are, the physical personification of what Friedrich Nietzsche described as das Übermensch in his book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Nietzsche introduces the concept of the Übermensch in contrast to the other-worldliness of Christianity: Zarathustra proclaims the Übermensch to be the meaning of the earth and admonishes his audience to ignore those who promise other-worldly hopes in order to draw them away from the earth.[3][4] The turn away from the earth is prompted, he says, by a dissatisfaction with life, a dissatisfaction that causes one to create another world in which those who made one unhappy in this life are tormented. The Übermensch is not driven into other worlds away from this one.

Zarathustra declares that the Christian escape from this world also required the invention of an eternal soul which would be separate from the body and survive the body's death. Part of other-worldliness, then, was the abnegation and mortification of the body, or asceticism. Zarathustra further links the Übermensch to the body and to interpreting the soul as simply an aspect of the body.

As the drama of Thus Spoke Zarathustra progresses, the turn to metaphysics in philosophy and Platonism in general come to light as manifestations of other-worldliness, as well. Truth and essence are inventions by means of which men escape from this world. The Übermensch is also free from these failings.

Zarathustra ties the Übermensch to the death of God. While this God was the ultimate expression of other-worldly values and the instincts that gave birth to those values, belief in that God nevertheless did give life meaning for a time. God is dead means that the idea of God can no longer provide values. With the sole source of values no longer capable of providing those values, there is a real chance of nihilism.

Zarathustra presents the Übermensch as the creator of new values. In this way, it appears as a solution to the problem of the death of God and nihilism. If the Übermensch acts to create new values within the moral vacuum of nihilism, there is nothing that this creative act would not justify. Alternatively, in the absence of this creation, there are no grounds upon which to criticize or justify any action, including the particular values created and the means by which they are promulgated.

In order to avoid a relapse into Platonic Idealism or asceticism, the creation of these new values cannot be motivated by the same instincts that gave birth to those tables of values. Instead, they must be motivated by a love of this world and of life. Whereas Nietzsche diagnosed the Christian value system as a reaction against life and hence destructive in a sense, the new values which the Übermensch will be responsible for will be life-affirming and creative.

Sound familiar? Okay, maybe it doesn't, if only because Nietzsche wrote in German and everything in German sounds confusing, melodramatic and borderline psychotic. Only a modern man with a warlock brain can translate the concept of the Übermensch into terms that the rabble can properly understand and appreciate. Charlie Sheen has done that in ways that show him to be a creator of new values following the death of God.

But don't take my word for it. Just watch his UStream shows from over the weekend and I'm sure that you'll agree.



And the second is even more powerful, to say nothing of succinct.



I think you're starting to get the idea.

On the other hand, like Nietzsche, Charlie Sheen may just have been driven mad by syphilis. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.