Author: Ben Bartee
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Most drive-by philosophers are familiar with Nietzsche’s now-infamous proclamation that “God is Dead” in the collective hearts and minds of Western civilization.
Fewer understand the full breadth of this bitter diagnosis. Even fewer see what it really portends: the death of the West and, ultimately, the dawn of a New Dark Age.
The flippant interpretation of Nietzsche’s remark — widely made by campaigning atheists and proponents of secular government in state-run media – is that he was merely making a surface-level observation on the decline of organized religion, specifically of the waning Lutheran establishment that dominated the spiritual lives of Germans in the mid-1800s.
In fact, Nietzsche predicted an ugly truth that we have only begun to experience as reality: we have lost our sense of meaning. There is no tie that binds us any longer. Our story as a Western people with a rich tapestry of meaning sourced through cultural texts has reached its final act.
We are stagnant and atomized, like a leaf cut from a tree, left to rot with no psychosocial nourishment to sustain us. In time, we will lose our sanity as well as our sense of purpose.
Don’t take such dire analysis on faith: you can feel the decaying energy in the streets. The unraveling has only just begun.
An academic contemporary of Nietzsche, Emile Durkheim, glimpsed the future demise of the West as well. He submitted his own diagnosis of the bleak zeitgeist of the time in his study of suicide.
Specifically, Durkheim introduced the heavily studied psychosocial concept of anomie – succinctly put, the large-scale social breakdown that a lack of perceived purpose or meaning triggers. At least 47,000 Americans kill themselves every year. Suicide is the tenth-leading cause of death among US adults.
The sages of history from Buddha to Carl Jung have long recognized that to live is to suffer. Discovering a constructive reason for the suffering beyond our animalistic comfort, through religion or other means, is the only way to make inevitable suffering tolerable.
Without it, why wouldn’t we just kill ourselves? The answer to that rhetorical question lies in the mounting scores of fatal, self-inflicted wounds.
Despite the pervasive nihilism of the modern Western era, our unbreakable desire for meaning remains. Despite the individual-centric consumer culture that corrodes our psyche, our social connections – to our families and beyond to the larger community – continue to define our orientation in the world.
At an undefined point in 20th century America, our national purpose became to consume. Advertisements convinced us that, without the product or service being hocked on the television screen, we would remain woefully incomplete.
As it turns out, “keeping up with the Joneses” is a symptom of a terminal cultural sickness.
Never let a good crisis go to waste is the mantra of the elites.
In tumultuous times, their tactics have extra potency. They reach for more power.
But this is also when the elite are most vulnerable.
By studying their tactics, you will be more prepared to guard against, and counter-attack the enemy.
The current crisis is being used to exploit the masses. But it also presents tremendous opportunity to take the power back, and reshape this world.
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