These creeps also glamorized major mental illnesses.
This is part of the underpinning of the New Radical Left.
Nietzsche was dumped by that incredible woman, Lou Andreas (later Lou Andreas Salome) and responded by writing "Zarathustra" with all its nonsense about supermen. Essentially his "philosophy" is little more than a childish attempt at pretending that rejection didn't hurt. Rilke handled his dropping by Lou in finer form. He went off to a tree crotch overlooking the Adriatic, fell into trance, and envisioned the Duino Elegies.