God Is Dead. Now What?
How do we pursue what is meaningful when we have destroyed the idea of meaning itself?
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"God is dead." - Nietzsche's most famous quote, and his most misunderstood one.
Nietzsche's observation "God is dead" was not, as it's commonly understood to be, a triumphant declaration.
Rather, it was a lament over what we've lost by destroying divinity. Here's the full quote in context:
"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?"
In delivering ourselves from divine dominion, we have in the process lost all that divinity stands for: Beauty which leads to virtue, virtue which leads to truth, and truth which leads to meaning.
How do we expect our culture to continue when we have abandoned these values?
How do we compel progeny to pursue what is meaningful, when we have destroyed the very idea of meaning itself?
*Music for this video made in collaboration with the incredibly talented Enzo de Rosa
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