h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't think that there's anybody else more suited for the job.

I've got to stop praising myself.

Nietzsche (*shudder*) did a pretty good job at the time.

Who?

From the Theological and Philosophical Biography and Dictionary (via Babylon):

• Nietzsche, Friedrich

(1844-1900) German philosopher; atheist; early existentialist; Hitler used his view of "superman." Wrote 1. The Birth of Tragedy, 2. Beyond
Good and Evil, 3. The Genealogy of Morals, 4. Thus Spake Zarathustra, and 5. The Will to Power. Western man has been corrupted by two major evils:
intellectualistic philosophy and the idealization of weakness by Christianity. Both deny the natural human spirit. A transvaluation or reversal of values is needed: instead of sympathy and pity -- contempt and aloofness; instead of neighbor love --
egoism and ruthlessness. Why? "Life is precisely Will to Power the fundamental fact of all history." But the transvaluation is for "free spirits" only, for the
Superman. The everyday man is a "bridge," a something to be "surpassed." The new morality is "beyond good and evil," beyond the values of the "common herd," who sublimate their resentment of the naturally superior in the form of a conventional morality that makes the virtue of superiority "evil" and their own weakness "good." Altruism is a typical "slave" ideal. The new morality embodies the realization of the natural virtues of strength and power. "The noble type of man regards himself as a determiner of values."

Who?

atheist man Hitler liked

Ah yes, him.

See Yael, why can't you be more like Jack?

Because I've got Babylon and I love it.

I had a friend who had Babylon, but then the Americans invaded and took it from him.

Everyone should be more like me, fact of life

Yes, if we were all like you . . . well civilization would collapse and the human race would die out.

Same with me.

*sigh* I know... but what can I do?

I was actually Jack for a while yesterday - following the Tony Curtis frenzy I changed my nickname briefly to Jack Lemmon.

Yes, I noticed. What was that Tony Curtis thing about anyway?

*shrug* Beats me. 2legs is involved, so...

Ah yes, 2legs. One of the few people that can confuse me. He has a gift and we should not interfere in his divine ways.

n i g h t h o o v e r Right, must be off now, gotta read Bradford and Winthrop for tomorrow... Bye!

Ah, keeping to your 1am deadline, I see.

ooh deadlines

Yes. I can do this.

Good luck. I'll keep on lurking for now.