…Once we are inside The Wanderer and his Shadow, here is a
splendid specimen of Nietzsche’s aphoristic brilliance:
(#290). The
most dangerous follower.— The most dangerous follower is he whose defection
would destroy the whole party: that is to say, the best follower.
The best manner in which
Nietzsche’s brilliance may be honored here is not to play an admiration
society, but to initiate an argument. Thus, in my view, the most dangerous
follower is not necessarily a potential defector, but a potential hijacker: the
one who does not go to the other side, but appropriates the leader’s cause (“the best follower,” remember!), and
takes over the movement under his own auspices, reducing the former leader to
the name only.
Examples? Just this one will
suffice.--- Lenin was a hijacker of Marx…
Other examples, past and present, and the logical conclusions? Many, and to each taste!
Anyway, thank you, Nietzsche, for
starting up a mind-warming fire!
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