Are aristocracies actually Nietzschean in character, or was Nietzsche just a passionate snob?
Nietzsche wasn't an aristocrat, he wasn't qualified to judge them.
Plato, on the other hand...
He advocated that the German aristocracy - the 'Brandenburg class' - marry the Jewish elite of Germany.
Nietzsche is surely right: to the extent that anything like intellectual challenge, growth, and aesthetics will flourish, it will be among a very small minority of people. He never thought this was some recognized elite, the aristos or wealthy, just a minority, likely loathed and feared by the masses.
Ironically, he ends up pretty much where Christianity began: only the ascetic alone in his cave knows God.
Sadly, Nietzsche is wrong in that the nobility too are nonredeemable plebs. He failed to refute Schopenhauer and for that we all dwell in eternal nihilism until society collapses once more
>>1218089
His use of the word arisocrate refers to a specific set of characteristics, not every guy group of people that happened to have a title. It's the competitive aristocratic societies he likes, one's that have some sense of great virtue that they compete to excele in. They have a clear sense of their caste's greatness and reject egalitarianism. There needs to be a way for the excellent aristocrats to rise and the one's that have become decadent to fall.
So a guy that inherited a title, never has to defend his land, and sits around drinking tea all day is not what Nietzsche would call aristocratic.
>>1218089
He'd enjoy somalia so fucking much
