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God Is Dead

On a practical level, Nietzsche feared the legacy of Christianity on Western society. To him, Christ represented the exemplar of “slave mentality,” dying as the ultimate sacrifice in to his oppressors.

On a mystical level, Christ’s sacrifice freed believers from the void—the fear of death 💀, filling it with a story of perfection and love.

Nietzsche’s fear was that the second—the ideal of perfection and love would be destroyed with God’s death, but the slave mentality would persist—it would simply be transferred to the new God of the State.

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body (it's me again) ⚡️DSB#♾️⚡️ 2y ago

Nietzsche’s solution took form in the Uebermensch—a sort of next level human, who was able to live in the void, and like the jester mentioned above, was able to cross the high wire between two towers.

Contrast this with Nietzsche’s “last man” who would seek to replace the void with comfort, per Nietzsche’s fear, largely provided by the State.

Ironically, the concept of the Uebermensch was misappropriated (with the aid of his sister, after Nietzsche’s death) to support the German National Socialist State—a complete reversal of his concept.