Frederich Nietzsche's The Genealogy Of Morals

While many philosophers take up the mantle of the persecuted everyman, Frederich Nietzsche in The Genealogy of Morals pledges his allegiance to the enlightened elite. If the world were at Nietzsche’s discretion, tyranny and the accompanying oppression would run rampant. The basis of humankind, he argues, lies in power and who wields it. In the pre-Christian tradition, the power rested with the ideal of the Greek hero: the overtly masculine, strong, physical and honorific man. The only way to exercise power was to wrest it from the hands of those who already have it and keep it out of the hands of those who want to take it from you. This scheme, to say the least, bred instability and a dog eats dog type of scenario.
By our contemporary definitions, the most meritorious perhaps did not possess the most power. The strong held the power, not the intelligent. That is not to say that the two things are mutually exclusive, but they do not necessarily always function in tandem. This power dynamic serves as Nietzsche’s original scheme of good

The men in power were, in his conception, entirely contradicting the foundational principles of existence: by denying themselves the full extent of what they could have, they were essentially denying life. Worse than retarding the progress of humanity, Nietzsche believed that humanity would will itself out of existence by adhering to these principles of asceticism. This ties into what he refers to as “civilization as illness.” The use of the word illness seems clear enough: not only are many afflicted with the consequences of this twisted worldview, but it is spreading. Whether that dissemination can be arrested is an interesting question in and of itself. What would it take to have another cultural revolution? Perhaps it is already happening, with all the human rights violations occurring around the globe. Morality seems to be of little consequence in many spheres of today’s