Nietzsche, Morality, and Plato's Cave

Nietzsche's subversion of traditional Morality can be represented in terms of the imagery of 'Plato's Cave'. For Nietzsche, the actual world, outside the cave, is meteorologically variable--sometimes placid, warm, and sunny, sometimes tempestuous and extreme. In contrast, inside the cave, Morality is a shadow play that presents the 'real' world as perpetually sunny, clear, and temperate. The main problem in the interpretation of Nietzsche, especially of his later phase, is whether his presentation is a replacement shadow play, whether it is a shadow play designed to 'show the prisoner the way out of the cave', to paraphrase Wittgenstein, or is addressed to those who are already outside the cave. It seems likely that it is at least the latter, while oligarchs seem to prefer to think that it is also at least the former, though a project like Twilight of the Idols, and Nietzsche's self-described 'active nihilism' seem closer to the second than to the first. On the other hand, while there is ample textual support for any of these interpretations, there is far less so for some of the purposes to which they have prominently been put--genocidal, licentious, plutocratic.