A Nation of Slaves

In class we discussed Nietzsche distinction between good and bad and good and "evil".  As we began to discuss the topic it became aware that Nietzsche beliefs of these distinctions between the two categories displays fault in Democracy and the Christian faith. Taking that Nietzsche would view both Democracy and the Christian faith as people with a Slave mindset who are weak he would view the United States of America as weak nation as a whole.

In class I proposed the thought that maybe those of power or those who are noble kept the weak or the slaves as being weak by not allowing them certain rights. The example I gave was of the idea of slavery in the United States and the slave owners keeping the slaves from reading because knowledge is power. Nietzsche would view my response of that of a slave simply because the weak can not possess characteristics which they do not have and nobles wouldn't have to keep the weak down.

This gave me the thought that I do agree with Nietzsche belief of pre moral values time and a time where moral values became relevant. I came up with this thought through thinking through the history of the United States from slavery, the Jim Crow Era, and the Civil Rights Movement, and even the Black Lives Matter Movement. Although I might not view it as Nietzsche does. I view it as those here in the United States who are considered the powerful and noble are really amongst the weak. Our founders of the country were slaves to the nobles of Britain who then exerted their weakness as strength against the slaves. They then began to make laws in the centuries to come that would only continue to keep their weaknesses as strengths. In all I understand why Nietzsche would view people as slaves its obvious that the United States has bread an entire nation of slaves.