Mars will need cowboys, not committees
In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil. One hundred and forty years later, the book still asks its original question: what happens when inherited moral maps lose their force, and human beings must create values from strength rather than receive them. The anniversary is worth marking for a second reason. At the same historical moment, on the other side of the Atlantic, a short-lived American experiment was already living out a practical version of that challenge. This is synchronicity, not cause and effect. The cowboys and lawmen of the 1870s and 1880s were not reading German philosophy. They simply operated under conditions that made the underlying drive visible.
