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High life

The mob mentality of the elite

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

Gstaad

I thought of Nietzsche while the mayhem and destruction of monuments was going on. Decadent bourgeois society was in the great man’s sights, but then he went bananas. Later on, young Nietzscheans believed that what was needed to save the world was an insurrection of sons against their fathers.

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