Nietzsche as a television pundit? You can't imagine it! But perhaps you can. With the right coaching - could you be more obviously sincere, a little less peremptory, smile from time to time - it would have done him a power of good. Steadied his mind, tempered his extravagances, alerted him to the virtues of the man (and the woman) in the street, and bred a firmer sense of responsibility towards his (much enlarged) public. Before long he'd have been co-opted onto influential EC committees, drafting new legislation, helping to eradicate blond beasts and firebrands, invited to deliver the Reith lectures, given an honorary knighthood by Britain ("Sir Freddie"), appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, awarded the Order of the Chrysanthemum for Excellence in Prose Poems, and asked to open innumerable fêtes.
D.J. Enright, Interplay.
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