Character: Weakness and Strength

What earlier in his career Nietzsche interprets as Schopenhauerian anti-conformist strength of character, he later diagnoses as an expression of nihilistic Ressentiment.  One of the signs of his misplaced youthful appreciation is in the title of the Untimely Meditation that accompanies 'Schopenhauer as Educator'--'On the Use and Abuse of History for Life'.  For, the latter stands in stark contrast to not only Schopenhauer's detachment from the Will-to-Live, but, as is expressed in #54 of WWR, his denial of the reality of the Past.  Accordingly, part of the effectiveness as an antidote to Ressentiment that Nietzsche attributes to the affirmation of Eternal Recurrence, is a healthy incorporation of the Past in the Present, as a prelude to Future creativity.  In other words, the result of that incorporation is neither a Schopenhauerian withdrawal from society, nor the petty tyrannies of Fascism, Straussism, Randism, etc., but a constructive exercise of power.  Common to those various strands of self-styled recent 'Nietzscheanism' is nostalgia: for a more barbaric era (Fascists), for a pre-Modern Oligarchy (Leo Strauss), and for a pre-Bolshevik Capitalism (Ayn Rand).  Each is a wish to undo a Past, that is, like Schopenhauer's detachment from his, an expression of Ressentiment, i. e. of weakness of character masquerading as strength, according to Nietzsche's formula.