the Übermensch anomaly was short-lived in Europe, it was never going to be an idea with a survival instinct for longevity in Europe, just like Copernicus became defamed by Galileo... the Übermensch idea was prescribed to America, what with their Superman and Batman, and Spiderman... Nietzsche didn't include America for a reason, you could speak of Emerson as the zenith of American intellectual output as the reason, but that's hardly a reason... tourists to the Caribbean will know, Americans think they're super-human... i hate the American accent, it's like a mosquito buzzing in my ear, i just call them the spaghetti swindlers of tongue, gluttonous harp players... and because Nietzsche didn't mention America, America is his most fertile and therefore most arable landmass... i mean... Nietzsche reached pop culture status, just because he didn't mention American culture in his writing... and that's how the Americans see themselves, the righteous inheritors of the post-**** mindset... Übermensch Staaten Amerika... hence the reason they're on the gold medal leader boards at the Olympics... i.e. if those ******* aren't doped then i'm doped... not doping athletes makes chemists redundant, dope the whole lot of them, let's make it fair. yes, i know it should have been written as staaten, but i like my diacritical arithmetic, and given the umlaut, i count that as a hidden extra a... so from staaten into stäten; oh yeah... and **** your "perfect" teeth; or the Penguin cover for Philip K. ****'s man in the high castle, the red & white stripes with 50 swastikas.