Money and Markets: Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager

Leland’s favorite economists 115which we know we should be condemned as eyewitnesses ofpolitics that are desolating the German spirit by making itvain and that is, moreover, petty politics: to keep its owncreation from immediately falling apart again, is it notfinding it necessary to plant it between two deadly hatreds?must it not desire the eternalization of the European systemof a lot of petty states?We who are homeless are too manifold and mixedracially and in our descent, being “modern men,” and consequentlydo not feel tempted to participate in the men -dacious racial self-admiration and racial indecency thatparades in Germany today as a sign of a German way ofthinking and that is doubly false and obscene among thepeople of the “historical sense.” We are, in one word – andlet this be our word of honor – good Europeans, the heirs ofEurope, the rich, oversupplied, but also overly obligatedheirs of thousands of years of European spirit. As such, wehave also outgrown Christianity and are averse to it –precisely because we have grown out of it, because ourancestors were Christians who in their Christianity wereuncompromisingly upright: for their faith they willinglysacrificed possessions and position, blood and fatherland.We – do the same. For what? For our unbelief? For everykind of unbelief? No, you know better than that, friends!The hidden Yes in you is stronger than all Nos and Maybesthat afflict you and your age like a disease; and when youhave to embark on the sea, you emigrants, you, too, arecompelled to this by – a faith!(Nietzsche 1974)Insertion IIFriedrich Nietzsche: Die Genealogie der MoralZweite Abhandlung1.Ein Tier heranzüchten, das versprechen darf – ist das nicht gerade jene paradoxeAufgabe selbst, welche sich die Natur in Hinsicht auf den Menschen gestellthat, ist es nicht das eigentliche Problem vom Menschen?. . . . Daß dies Problembis zu einem hohen Grad gelöst ist, muß dem um so erstaunlicher erscheinen,der die entgegen wirkende Kraft, die der Vergeßlichkeit, vollauf zu würdigenweiß. Vergeßlichkeit ist keine bloße vis inertiae, wie die Oberflächlichen