/lit/ - Literature

>>16662232
Nietzsche wasn't a fan of degeneracy or groupthink, which both camwhores and activists/communists advocate and embody -- because they still focus on the material.

Read TSZ. It's incredibly clear that Nietzsche believed human beings had to, and probably would, pass through a dark age of hedonism and degeneracy and some kind of barren/decadent wasteland where nothing made sense and everything was permitted because there wasn't any overarching system to prevent it from being not permitted. This is most likely what we are in now.

It's also clear that his philosophy doesn't just have to be applied on a macro-level -- it can and should be applied to the individual as well. Zarathustra, and Nietzsche himself, sequesters away for years, contemplating the problems he sees in the world. He emerges several times and is rebuffed several times by the public and nature. Near the end of the book, even after finding disciples, he finds that there's still a long way to go.

More than anything, Nietzsche wanted people to abandon their systems of belief as sources of personal power -- that power had to, and did/does, come from within. Anyone can be a Zarathustra or an enlightened figure. And this isn't blasphemous because Nietzsche never really decried God in the idea of the sublime or the aesthetic or the transcendent -- he decried the abuse of power wrought from systems of belief that convinced people they needed those systems in order to be fully human. These systems corrupt people by annexing parts of their soul away, and keeping them from genuine peace and contentment.

Anyone who has the power to change their situation and instead blames their station in life on someone or something else, especially Nietzsche, misses the whole point, and may just be a real-life example of the Last Man Fred talked about in his books.