“…he dares to raise a calamitous, and previously unapproachable, question of political legislation: "what ought humankind to become?" Although this might fairly be viewed as the founding question of politics, to which all political thinkers and legislators ought carefully to attend, Nietzsche insists that it is in fact rarely considered at all.”
Daniel Conway in Nietzsche and the Political
Nietzsche's point that no-one asks this fundamental question I think is right on. I have yet to hear a politician put together a great and challenging answer to the question and then promote legislation to take us there. Obviously this is not something that could be successful in America's current political environment (atleast not with the "success" that Nietzsche (and I) want). This is why I push for more localized government, because in a smaller setting, where poeple are free to come and go an ubermensch creating society could be made.
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