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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
I love when people just quote the "God is dead" part as if it's some gotcha. Yeah, like you say, shit like this is what we get from morons thinking they're above nature and God.
I think it's Neitzche's most terrifying statement.
I think of it as: you've taken God's life. Now you have to take responsibility for that killing. Will you take a level of responsibility that matches that of a God, or will you wallow in the realization that you are a demon who killed God for nothing?
Prophetic too.
Because what is he describing if not wokism?
That's precisely what he's getting at.
I still believe that we can take the mantel of responsibility from God, as humans, eventually. But it requires a maturity that we really don't have yet. We should be our own moral sovereigns, but we still live in far too authoritarian of a society to have enough people who would be willing to take that responsibility as it is. We need everyone to do it.
The average person is far, far worse at moral thinking today than a century ago. The bottom of the bell curve was never capable of building a conscience. The middle, though, is less literate and less able to engage with an idea for more than a minute or two, and actually forming your own moral compass requires mulling over hypotheticals for hours.
Dull people need instructions.
Average people need a prompt to get them started.
Intelligent people need guard rails to keep them humble.
Everyone needs an external source of morality, and traditional religion, when not infested with Gnostic parasites, is as good a fountain as we're ever going to get the chance to drink from.
I think it’s more speaking to the death of the Christian religion. He’s approaching it from the idea that humans collectively need some sort of structure because they don’t have the knowledge, skill, or foresight to lead themselves into prosperity. He says “Must we ourselves becomes gods,”but the tone is disbelieving. Humans might become “gods” in the sense that we can set our own moral values and our own path, but other than that we would be gods the same way John Flynt is a woman.
That last sentence is the point. He speaks in metaphors. You're not going to literally will yourself into a God, unless you intend on becoming a political god-king.