Please Accept My Unworthy Sacrifice

On February 25, 2024, at approximately 12:58 PM local time, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old member of the United States Air Force, walked up to the gates of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire. The whole event, including the desperate attempts of Secret Service agents to extinguish him, was livestreamed on Twitch. ...

Although Nietzsche would not be surprised at the twisted social and individual psychological effects of this bad conscience, he would be surprised by its object, which is not an all-powerful, omnipresent judging God, but a particular group of people who have been elevated to an absurd stature in modern Western society—so-called “Persons of Color.” And whereas Nietzsche saw the development of the bad conscience as taking millennia of historical time, it appears to have taken Bushnell a mere four years to develop his, the total length of his career in the Air Force.