What would Nietzsche think of this Cultural Appropriation BS?
Cultural appropriation is a hotly debated topic these days. It seems the creep of victimhood knows no bounds. Now cultures themselves deserve to be protected from the immensely perceived threat of being borrowed from or copied by other cultures. The UN wants to outlaw it . NPR calls it "indefensible." But are cultures truly sacred cows? Should they be legally defended as such? Is it illegal or unethical to borrow from, say, various religions on a given spiritual quest? Is it improper for artists to borrow from various traditions to create art? Making cultures sacred is not the first step not toward their preservation but toward their deification. Nietzsche would uncover all this hubris for exactly what it is, the neoliberal absurdity of hurt feelings. Quite simply, cultural appropriation is the ressentiment of the slave morality caused by the privilege of the master morality and, simultaneously, the attempt by slave morality to attain privilege through c