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>significant and large story portions of Berserk are taken straight from Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Nietzsche's Dionysian ideal
>the intro song to Dragon's Dogma, which has references to Berserk also, is called Eternal Return and basically sounds like Aubrey is singing about the death of God

Why is Japan's entertainment so bizarre? And not for the normal reasons here. I just didn't expect to ever see certain high level concepts find their way into lower level entertainment. Or am I just overlooking the western media that actually features Nietzsche's philosophy instead of just dropping his "he who fights monsters" quote at some point in it?

Making this thread on /lit/ since it is about a philosopher and I'm particularly looking for certain stories in media, books as top priority of course. I figured /lit/ would be the best place to ask this. What fiction is strongly inspired by Nietzsche / Zarathustra beyond a superficial connection?

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>Belief in the categories of reason is the cause of nihilism — we have measured the value of the world against categories that refer to a purely invented world. Final result: all the values by means of which up to now we first tried to make the world estimable to us and with which, once they proved inapplicable, we then devaluated it — all these values are, calculated psychologically, the results of particular perspectives of usefulness for the preservation and enhancement of human formations of rule, and only falsely projected into the essence of things.

So, I'm not sure what all of this means to you. But to me, what I see is: Nietzsche thoroughly understood nihilism as a process, with a strongly psychological as well as philosophical foundation. A process, of course, is not a beginning, nor an end; it's an in-between state. Nietzsche here even outlines very clearly all of the ways in which nihilism comes about.

All of it is a prelude to something which Nietzsche may not have written down explicitly, but which I believe he still knew of, and just didn't get around to it yet. It is a prelude to a true post-nihilism phase. And going by everything Nietzsche went on about in these passages and those near it (they are from his unpublished notebooks), that phase is characterized by the total absence of past interpretations based on fictional categories and by having a higher species in its midst — the Overman and his descendants — which in turn creates an "objective" goal in the psyche. He knew this, and he also knew of the eternal recurrence of this entire cycle, and he was working towards laying ALL of it out for us, diligently until he went mad.

So to me, he had certainly achieved a post-nihilist state, at least in his understanding of the full cycle of life and in what his purpose was, which was to serve as ultimate prophet, harbinger, and philosopher of the cycle.

How does one become an Ubermensch?