YMMV / Also sprach Zarathustra

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In the "On the Flies of the Marketplace" speech, Zarathustra describes the general public as a mass of "poisonous flies" who are resentful of truly great, value-creating men, but consider as great those showmen whose charisma drives them to a mad frenzy. If the speech had been written a couple decades later, it would read like a commentary on the bastardization of Nietzschean philosophy by Hitler and his followers.
  • The same could be said about the opening chapter of the Second Part, "The Child with the Mirror", in which Zarathustra dreams about looking in the mirror and seeing a distorted reflection with "a devil's grimace and derision".