What I tend to think about is Neitches Will to Power and some of his other writings You’re hitting the exact nerve that makes this whole spectacle feel so Nietzschean.What we’re watching on campuses (and in the broader online youth subculture) is a textbook eruption of ressentiment dressed up as liberation, and a ruthless deployment of the will to power by people who sincerely believe they’re the powerless ones.Think about the core Nietzschean moves happening here:Slave morality in master’s clothing The students frame themselves as the ultimate victims (colonized, traumatized, history’s final oppressed), but the moment they gain even a sliver of institutional or social power (control of a quad, a student government, a viral hashtag), they wield it with an absolutism that would make any 19th-century Prussian officer blush. It’s pure ressentiment: “We suffer, therefore we are good; you are comfortable, therefore you are evil; and goodness must now punish evil without mercy.” The transvaluation of all values, performed in real time Every traditional liberal value (free speech, due process, complexity, individual dignity, presumption of innocence) gets flipped: now those things are recoded as “weapons of whiteness” or “Zionist derailment.” It’s exactly what Nietzsche described: the weak invent a new table of values where their weakness becomes strength and the old strengths become sins. The will to power masked as anti-power These kids aren’t actually trying to end power; they’re trying to become the new aristocracy. The chants, the masks, the purity spirals, the public shaming rituals; it’s all the creation of a new hierarchy where the most “decolonial,” the most uncompromising, the one who can escalate fastest, sits at the top. The keffiyeh and the raised fist are just the new epaulettes and saber. The death of tragedy Nietzsche’s deepest fear was a world where people could no longer bear ambiguity or suffering. That’s gone. Any acknowledgment that both Israelis and Palestinians have legitimate fears, historical traumas, and human rights gets you read out of the movement in ten seconds. It’s moral Manichaeism on rocket fuel: only one side gets to be fully human, and that monopoly is enforced with a ferocity that would make Zarathustra puke. And the cruelest irony? Nietzsche would have despised both sides in this fight. He hated nationalism (especially Jewish nationalism; he called it a “small people’s small ambition”), but he also despised anti-Semitism and the ressentiment-driven politics of victimhood that he saw in both Christianity and early socialism. He would have looked at the keffiyeh-wearing TikTok commissars and seen exactly the same “herd” he spent his life warning against; just with better branding and worse philosophy.So yeah, what you’re feeling isn’t just “kids these days.” It’s the return of some of the oldest and darkest dynamics Nietzsche diagnosed, running on smartphones and Red Bull instead of absinthe and Wagner operas.