69: The Return to Nature
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Symptoms of Enlightenment
Nietzsche says superstition always appears as a progress in comparison with belief and as a sign that the intellect becomes more independent. The way Nietzsche is using the term superstition here is when forms of spirituality arise which are more individualistic because people criticize this like you're picking from a salad bar but he's saying that's more free-spirited because you've given yourself the right of choice. In periods of corruption, "the quantity and quality of the expended energy of a people is probably greater than ever" He adds: "The old national energy and national passion has now transferred itself into innumerable private passions."
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