Ideally, I’m thinking that individuals can maintain their self-unity compatibly with others doing the same - such that they mutually increase the power of not just individual unity but social unity also. I wish to attract “accomplices” on these terms. I have found many thinkers, and whilst some have shown some kind of promise, I’m not sure any have shown the kind that I am interested in. Perhaps 1, maybe 2.
I assume that people with taste are only ever seeking those who are similar to themselves, or at least compatible. It is a common sentiment for the weak to despair at the lack of those who are like them, I know. However, this arises out of inability, which I do not suffer from. It does not sound like you suffer from inability either. You say you have been slightly more successful than I, I wonder why this is so. I do not regard it as a virtue in itself to be particularly individual, but perhaps you are slightly more similar to others than I. I think we agree that numbers are an advantage in realising ambition so perhaps you are in a better position.
Then I gave the wrong impression of my preliminary hypotheses being my final conclusion. I had not made up my mind, nor will I for a while to come, I suspect.
Note that this goes for anything I say - unless I explicitly state otherwise.
I seem to remember the best examples are in Ecce Homo, which regretably I borrowed when I read it, and it has long been returned.
However, I think Nietzsche’s philosophy can perhaps be entirely summed up as a philosophy of health. Master morality is a fuller expression of will to power, for example. Slave morality is very hindered, resulting in such illnesses as resentment and restricted ambition. Vulgarity as opposed to nobility has too much of the immediate animal impulse in decisions, as referred to in Twilight of the Idols (section 6, What the Germans Lack). Cruelty turns inward to turn the intellect against one’s instincts - rather than outward to cause fear (a virtue to master morality and vice to slave morality), as discussed in Beyond Good and Evil (Our Virtues 229 combined with What is Noble? 260).
I suspect that human (particularly mental) physiology is changing to select for those who thrive under conditions of slave morality.
I see a trend towards pair bonding relationships over tournament selection. The opposite sexes seem to be homogenising, which, for one, becomes increasingly incompatible for Capitalism - with the increased humility of the male sex and the rising demand for jobs in care whether of the disabled, other employees or just consumers in general.
Interesting that you are one who actually has experience in power. I would be interested with working with one who has such experience. I, myself, am merely too familiar with petty power.
I do not predict significant violent philosophy in the near future - not any of any note at least. This entire age is characterised by its lack of physicality. The current Western economic system is fundamentally based on lack of physical force - with as much of all else as possible. The major symptom of this is a sleepiness that permeates entire societies. This is not to say that violence does not happen, but if it is seen it is immediately demonised and dismissed - as something like adolescence or mental illness. If violence is what you are after, a transition is needed - possibly one of culling populations and severing technological communications. Like I said, I am not reactionary. Shock treatment is not yet appropriate.
The new philosophy would much more likely be a surreptitious infiltration. Far too few have a taste or even tolerance for anything else. This is how current power moves become successful. People even praise sneakiness.