It is not Nietszche who finally could understood mankind folly after Mandeville master control theory, it is Dostoievsky the deepest Christian critic who explain it all and is way more deep than Mandeville himself...
If you dont like to read much, read the short novel so deep than it takes many reading to undertstand it a bit :
«the dream of a ridiculous man"
All the sory of the spiritual cosmos in a few pages...
Dostoievsky is so deep almost all scientist nowadays dont even understood him a bit and will file his book on the rubric religious madness...
Only Goethe is on par with Dostoievsky genius but not about human society, almost no one here is on par with D. but about the meaning of science and his relation to the soul....
Goethe cannot be filed in the rubric "religious madness"...He was a natural scientist on par with Darwin whicih is unrecognized even today in english circle, and after his death his collection of natural samples minerals,vegetals,or animals was one of the greatest in Europe...Goethe has developed his own evolution and mophological very deep theory and method deeper than Darwin...But less easy to explain and less easy to use in the wrong way... Very few mewn in history are on par with him with intelligence: Leonardo Da vinci, Archimedes, Aristotle dont look for any men under these geniuses for axample... Who is the only poet to contradict Newton and proving him wrong? Guess who....
But Goethe is too deep to begin with and less essential in understanding society than D....
Read only masters and disciples of the masters...
For sure all is already written in few words by Lao-Tse or Christ....But it is too deeply implicit here to be taken seriously by supposed enlightened mind of today...
If you want very short version of the spiritual cosmos history with no christian influence, then take Friedrich Von Kleist few pages "Puppets Theater" ..
A treatise in few pages so deep that he resume ALL martial arts and all mankind history like the Genesis book but in a very different perspective...
Goethe himself encountered Kleist and was "afraid" by this overpowering uncontrolled genius... That speak volume about Goethe and about Kleist...Alas! Kleist suffer too much to stay balanced exactly like Nietszche was ....
My posts remind me of my job now retired i was teaching multidisciplinary reading analysis...
The main important fact in reading analysis is the complementary interprenetrating contextual perspective in all fields... Contrary to relativistic deconstruction method my understanding was that there is only ONE fact in the universe: all is one....
i thank all for your patience with my loneliness...