/lit/ - Literature

I'm not into the accelerationism/ cosmotechnics thing (I don't even know if this is a meme) . However I recently found a compendium of Heidegger essays at my university library, and well, that was an awakening. Until now I've read The Origin of the Work of Art, The Age of World Picture and Nietzsche's Word, God is Dead. In this latter essay, Heidegger argues that western history is just the consummation of nihilism. Western thought started with the forgetfulness of the question of being in favor of the subject just appropriating its material surroundings. The Nietzsche's phrase, God is dead, is the final conclusion of this way of think. Any outer world justification to bring order to this reality has been destroyed.

>"Whither is God" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him -you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon What did we do when we unchained this earth from its sun?

What is left after this death is the subject, the humans imposing their values upon the raw material objects, this is the will to power. The path to follow now is the conquest of the Earth through technology, the consummation of nihilism.

>When God and the gods are dead in the sense of the metaphysical experience just elucidated, and when the will to power is deliberately willed as the principle of all positing of the conditions governing whatever is, i.e., as the principle of valuepositing, then dominion over that which is as such, in the form of dominion over the earth, passes to the new willing of man determined by the will to power.

Now I can't sleep thinking that we are living a nihilistic nightmare and that our thought structures are placed upon nothingness.
This is my first time reading Heidegger, so it's pretty possible that I'm missunderstanding him. Any insightful comment would be appreciated.

I'm not a english speaker, so please, forgive me for some possible grammar mistake.