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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/201252... The WikiLeaks revelations have not rendered us more free; rather, they show how framed we are and continue to be.

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Hmm. First of all, the author makes the mistake of assuming that there is consensus on the meaning of Nietzsche's writings and ramblings. This is light years from being true. Brilliant he may have been, specific...never. He (the author) makes statements about The Uberman as though they were an understood and well accepted fact and, while his bona fides certainly give him the right to offer up an educated opinion, there is and never has been a definitive final word on the subject.

Second, the Intelligentsia tend to forget that, in the world population, they are a distinct minority. The overwhelming majority of the 6.8 BILLION human beings on the planet Earth have likely never even heard of WikiLeaks, let alone read any of the avalanche of governmental minutia that has been posted there. The idea that the typical homo sapien wanders though his or her day in a fog of disenchantment thinking, "I feel trapped by the WikiLeaks revelations" is absurd on its face. For most people, WikiLeaks simply does not exist.

And that's probably a good thing. Philosophically speaking, it's all a bunch of meaningless hoo ha anyway.

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If you assume the all public information is false then the burden is on you to discover the truth.
Something we should all practice. Not just Julian.

Nietzsche believed we all can do better.

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