Will present humanity view the New Man as a "monster"?
Those who see the Nazis as monsters are going to freak all the way out when they behold the New Man. They really have no choice in the matter. Modern humanity has been programmed to fear strength in all of its forms. People are weak and they delight in their weakness. They cannot understand anything unless it is weak like they are. Moreover, they do not want to understand. The good news is weakness is reactionary, so by the time they get around to taking action it will be too late.
Why would humanity fear its next evolution?
Humanity will fear the New Man because he renders it obsolete, and doomed to extinction. The human ego will not be be able to accept this. Fear will breed hatred and violence, and things will begin to slip out of control. At this point modern civilization will destroy itself. It will commit suicide. A society with too much rigidity and little individual discretion will produce a kind of anomie, a mismatch between individual circumstances and larger social mores. Thus, fatalistic suicide arises when a person is too rule-governed, when there is ... no free horizon of expectation. Hence, any action against the New Man is futile and doomed to ultimate failure.
It doesn't have to be like this. But those in power must stay in power. That is the "nature of the beast". It is a disease and the cure is obliteration. Those who give way to the New Man will not be harmed. Those who resist will be obliterated. How can it be any other way?
Ours is not the gospel of peace and brotherly love, it is the way of fire and the sword. We have not come to praise Ceasar but to bury him...
The bored, alienated protagonist struggles to construct an individual system of values as he responds to the disappearance of the old. The end is the recognition of the Universe's indifference to mankind. Ultimately, the world is seen as essentially meaningless and therefore, the only way to arrive at any meaning or purpose is to make it oneself.
The two natures of man are often described as: one "high", spiritual and "human"; while the other is "low" and animal-like. Thus, man is entangled in an irresolvable struggle, never content with either nature because he cannot see beyond this self-made construct. In the final analysis, it is those who live between two natures, those who do not know what to follow, that suffer the most.
Modern Man sees an impersonal and callous God, asserts that man 'wastes and pines', mourns an inhospitable earth, and claims that man diminishes in a world that does not nurture him. This is an attitude toward man's experience on earth: the poignancy, oppression, camaraderie, hope, corruption, and bewilderment of human experience that can only be reconciled in the mind and art of the absurdist. Consequently, he aspires to dwell in an environment where all norms are habitually broken. This desire contains the seeds of weakness.
Humanity's inner conflict will ultimately result in a utilitarian-altruistic justification for the proposed action: why not kill the wretched and "useless" to alleviate human misery?
In the words of the prophet, "All your bases are belong to us!"
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