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Taking Nietzsche seriously
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Wondrium - The New Ideological Conflict in the 20th Century
I always read Nietzsche as saying, there's going to be a vacuum in the wake of this enlightenment destruction of God. What's going to fill it is political religions, for lack of a better phrase, like nationalism or communism or fascism. That these isms would become the new anchors of identity. I think what he meant was that human beings have a thirst for absolutes. We want capital T-Truth and whether it's God or political ideologies, we're going to glom on to whatever provides us with this horizon of meaning. He wanted simultaneously to be honest enough to reject any potential myth making that wasn't firmly grounded in reality. While at the same time being sufficiently honest to
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