” … Some are born posthumously.” This is Nietzsche’s way of saying that he has looked beyond the current wretched condition of humanity and is anticipating the arrival of an enlightened being who represents a new and superior iteration of the human race. For this to happen, he claims, we must be: “superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul – in contempt … “
Much has been made of Nietzsche’s concept of a superior human being – the Übermensch – but apart from being completely misunderstood and maliciously misappropriated by Hitler’s Nazi scum in the previous century – this is the future human being that will be able to rise above the present human condition. He will have overcome it in the sense of no longer being taken down constantly by all the human frailties that continue to threaten our extinction as a species: essentially endless everything – endless greed, lust for blood, consumption, exploitation, gratification, debauchery, procreation, stupidity, superstition. In short (!) everything that, as per our exceedingly well documented history, defines us as the immature, confused and seemingly self-destructive species we are so familiar with today.