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{Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy | 17 November 2023}
[emphasis in original - OB]
One of Nietzsche's insane insights: Ideas are like stars in space. Many people get stuck in the orbit of an ideology forever, circling it till they die. This only sounds bad till you realize the alternative is much worse—falling through empty space forever.
God's death was like the death of the greatest star in the mental universe, and we've been falling through empty space ever since.
People need some thing or some one or some idea to revolve around.
Fanaticism is an external manifestation of deep intellectual desperation. People latch onto gender madness, geopolitical folly, elections and movie fan clubs to have some orientation in life. To have no mantra to repeat, no stone to bow down to, no [star] to revolve around, produces a terrifying "lost-ness".
The human animal is over-developed, and cannot survive until he projects onto the universe a religious significance. If the Old Gods are dead then New Ones will be born, if we are to live at all.
