Stephen Colbert and Philosophy - Aaron Allen Schiller [104]
They will discover, these keen observers idlers, that things are quickly going downhill, that everything around them is turning to decay and causing decay, that nothing lasts past tomorrow, with the exception of one single species of human being, the incurably mediocre. The mediocre alone have the prospect of continuing, of having descendants—they are the people of the future, the only survivors. “Be like them! Become mediocre!” will henceforth be the only moral code that still makes sense, that can still find an ear.177
Just as the sheep want to discourage greatness, the media tries to elicit our pity and “compassion” for the weak while at the same time discouraging our feeling for the strong.
But a super-man like Mr. Colbert won’t have it anymore! No more subversive images of bombed Iraqi hospitals or abused gays! If the hospitals aren’t strong enough to keep a stockpile of patriot missiles on hand, and if the gays don’t buy some brass knuckles, then we shouldn’t feel bad for them!
Why Christianity Is Tougher than All Those Other Religions
Perhaps part of why Nietzsche made his mistake in thinking that Christianity supports the slave morality is because of misunderstood quotes like “turn the other cheek” and “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” But these are just more liberal media lies. If someone hits you, when you hit him back, your cheek turns; a good right hook takes throwing your body weight into it. Obviously, the most important point to take away from that misused quote is “a good super-man hits first.” If you didn’t bring the war to them, then you deserve to be hit on the other cheek! Hit first; then, hit him again. We can see here, though, how this slave morality has been beaten into us by the media. Shows like “60 Minutes” want us to think that it is a good thing to let people hit you! This is obviously weak thinking and a super-man like Stephen Colbert would never buy such baloney.
The same kind of liberal slave morality perverts the truth of the quote, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” The message here is obvious. Go to confession, then cast the stone! The Bible isn’t telling us to be weak and compassionate to sinners. It’s telling us not to be sinners or else we’ll be stoned! And deservedly so. If you’re a sinner, you’d better get those sins gone before those stones start flying. The fact that the media tries to cover up is who in that story was without sin. Jesus! I’ll bet if we investigated we’d find out that right after the story ends, he let the stones fly. Jesus was no slave! The liberal media tries to keep him down too! Once again, there might be so-called “facts” or “philosophical arguments” brought out to dispute what I am saying here. But, remember, this is truthiness: facts just get in the way.
What Mr. Colbert Has Taught Us (Besides Everything)
Alright. So we’ve seen that we should have probably have expected that Mr. Colbert’s bid for the Presidency would have been cut short by someone or other. Like all super-men, the forces of mediocrity are bent on keeping him down. And we have corrected some of the things that Nietzsche got wrong. Christianity isn’t to blame here. The liberal media is. This is surely frustrating to those of us who recognize greatness and wish to see it rewarded as it so rightly deserves to be.
But there’s reason to stay hopeful. By definition, the super-man never surrenders in his search for perfection. Neither will our super-man. Mr. Colbert isn’t going to let himself get sucked into the perverse world of liberal media bias. He will continue on the straight and narrow path, fighting for America!
Nietzsche states, “The super-man … has organized the chaos of