Zarathustra Has Not Finished Speaking

The first autobiography/manifesto/philosophical/inspirational book by Lord Alfred Ford Wright.
The title is a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's book, Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), in which the eponymous character claims that Enlightenment thinking has "killed" theological philosophy and thus rises above the latter's confines. Wright proposes that he has instigated a new challenge to what he sees as the confines of the "natural" and the "evolutionary" mindset — forces that he considers too slow, arbitrary, and clumsy to be of any value.

Purpose

Part autobiography, part manifesto, part philosophical diatribe, this book was written by Lord Alfred Ford Wright as part of the interest in his Frontier Century Corporation.

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Publication Status

The book was translated into dozens of languages and shot to the top of many best seller lists around the globe. It remains as the top-most influential book of the Twenty-First Century on most reader lists, and some would argue of all human history.

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Public Reaction

The blatant, unapologetic audacity, egotism, and arrogance enraged as many as it inspired. It caused a tremendous debate and formally launched the "New Men" movement. Critics, especially Cyborgs and Augments saw it as a direct affront — a threat, even — which launched a number of reactive advertisements.

It's like Mein Kampf, but without the self-pity.

— Harold Eggars, New York Times

Finally, somebody comes along and tells it like it is. I would have written this book had I been born fifty years later. In fact, I'm going to sign up for his gene-replacement therapy today, and I advise my listeners to do the same!

— A.Jones, the Real-Truth Power Hour^® radio/media network

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Zarathustra Has Not Finished Speaking

Selected Quotes:

“Frederick Nietzsche stood on his philosophical mountaintop and yelled at the heavens with shaken fist, ‘God is Dead.’ Well, I’m here today on that same proverbial mountaintop to tell you with a shaking fist, ‘Darwin is Dead!’ For what Nietzsche foretold as a statement of belief that the Übermensch would rise above the confines of the mind, I have fulfilled as a biological reality.”

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“No longer are human beings found adrift the flotsam and jetsam of evolutionary forces like helpless rafts to chance. Today, we take the wheel—become the masters of our own biology, the steam engines ushering forth a new revolution to ply the seas of change. Today, we liberate man from himself!”

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“Most species are discovered. Our new species will be made, and by our own hands.”

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“…the undeniable fact that there exists a new subspecies of Man…just as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis gave way to Homo sapiens sapiens, so it is time for the later to make room. We shall not be discovered, but with all due sovereignty, proclaim ourselves. Henceforth, I propose we are no longer Homo sapiens sapiens, but Homo sapiens novum! Homo sapiens industria! Homo sapiens superior! Homo sapiens invictum!”
“The Bible commands that human beings subdue the earth and all its creatures. Whether you believe in gods or not, the ancient writers correctly observed—in their own limited way—that humanity is the pinnacle of evolution. So what, then, are the New Humans? If we have mastered our own destiny, why should we be limited to the human genome alone? Let us harness the genetic material of all of creation to bend them into useful designs. What the Creationists called Intelligent Design in their pseudoscience, the true science of genetics makes real.”

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Well, what do you do with an abusive parent? You lock them up, of course! You present the evidence to judge and jury, and when found guilty of the most horrendous of acts, you lock the abusive parent up. Throw away the key! Execute them, in some countries! How is this any different with Mother Nature? She has turned her back on her children. When we were hungry, she cut off our food supply. When we were weathered, she threw us heat waves and hurricanes. When we tried to grow up for ourselves, she stifled us and locked us in the slow closet of stagnation.
Our judge is humanity. And we, the New Men, are the jury. We have found her guilty, guilty, guilty as charged. Don't believe those tree-hugging Earth First liberal hippies who claim we abused Mother Nature. To suggest such a thing is to ignore the evidence of millions of years. No, it is we who have taken the cruel Russian roulette of survival of the fittest and put Darwin's pistol to rest.

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This frees mankind from the distractions of sexual persuit as a means of furthering the species. No longer does a young man need to find a suitable and compatible wife, research the right schools, neighborhods, and social groups in which to belong. Likewise it frees a young woman from the burdens of motherhood. No longer an obsolete baby-maker whose uterus now posts the sign 'Going Out of Business' she is now able to finally pursue a real career and practical contribution to the world.

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Manuscript, Historical

Authors

• Lord Alfred Ford Wright