허무주의와 퇴폐: 현대성의 병폐

### 현대 사회의 허무주의와 퇴폐에 대한 니체의 진단
* 🌍 전례 없는 경제 및 기술 성장에도 불구하고 현대 사회는 도덕적, 정신적으로 큰 타락을 경험하고 있습니다. **정신 질환 발병률이 증가**하고 있으며, 사람들은 일상 생활에 대처하기 위해 **약물에 의존**하고 있습니다.
* 📜 프리드리히 니체는 서구가 진보를 가장한 쇠퇴의 길을 걷고 있으며 결국 **허무주의라는 정신적 질병이 모든 것에 만연**할 것이라고 경고했습니다.
* 🏛 현대 문화는 종종 **공유된 목적의식이나 정체성이 결여된 영광스러운 과거의 타락한 모방**으로 여겨지곤 합니다.
* 💀 인생이 무의미하다는 믿음인 허무주의는 **전통적인 가치가 의미를 잃고 냉담한 세계관**으로 이어질 때 발생합니다.
* 💥 니체가 말한 인간 삶의 근본적인 원동력인 **'힘에의 의지'**는 자신의 능력을 발휘하고자 하는 것입니다. 허무주의는 이러한 의지를 부정하는 것으로, **쾌락주의와 분열의 문화**를 낳습니다.
* 🥀 니체에 따르면 **'퇴폐'는 한 사회가 자신을 해치는 것을 찾는 법**을 배울 때 발생합니다. 권력에 대한 의지와 반대되는 **편안함, 안전, 평등과 같은 가치**는 퇴폐적인 것으로 간주됩니다.
* 🏛 탁월함, 자유, 자기 극복을 중시하는 영웅적이고 생명력 넘치는 고대 그리스 문화는 **건강한 삶의 모델이자 허무주의에 대한 해독제** 역할을 합니다.
* 🏹 허무주의를 극복하는 길은 **힘에 대한 의지를 갖고, 높은 목표를 세우고, 삶의 에너지를 높이는 경험**을 소중히 여기는 데 있습니다.

퇴폐와 허무주의가 현대 문화에 만연하여 고대 그리스의 영웅적 활력과 권력 추구와는 대조적으로 활력과 목적이 약화되고 있습니다.

people think we are so advanced and progressive today. I mean, we have cars and smartphones, science and AI, and we're living at the peak of culture and civilization, right? Uh, I'm not so sure. It really comes down to how you measure progress. Yeah, we've had unprecedented economic and technological growth, but at the same time, great moral and spiritual decay. Mental illness is skyrocketing, friendship rates are plummeting, and most people take drugs just to get through the day. I know we all feel it, the sickness of modernity. It's as if something vital has been lost. Friedrich Nietzsche, perhaps the most prolific philosopher in the past 200 years, commented on this extensively. He warned that the West had been declining for some time under the guise of progress and that soon the spiritual disease of nihilism would infect everything. Quote: Humanity does not represent a development for the better. Progress is just a modern idea, which is to say a false idea. Today's European is still worth considerably less than a Renaissance European. Onward development is not by any means by any necessity.

same thing as elevation advance and strengthening n today. We have horizontal spread of culture or imitation but nothing vertical, nothing truly original. In fact, what the [ __ ] is Western culture? It seems like we're living amongst the ruins of our forefathers in a degenerating swamp of people disconnected from their roots. For instance, modern art has become a cesspool where anything goes. Universities are full of pretentious pricks that care more about virtue signaling than true higher education. We have shopping malls and sweet green corporate offices and highways, all built for efficiency, but does any of it really inspire you? Do you feel any sense of cohesion or concentration? Probably not. It is obvious to any keen eye that our culture is not progressing, it is dying. I'd argue the West doesn't even have a culture anymore. There are only echoes of a more glorious past dissolving in the atmosphere of consumerism, postmodernism, and decadence. There are no ethnic and religious ties, no shared feeling

purpose barely any Traditions there are more Pride Flags than American ones, and people care more about sports teams than their neighbors. There is no aim, no great vision. We could build and produce the mightiest works and most flourishing communities ever, but our leaders stay safe and argue over unimportant details. Our people work in middle management writing emails no one reads. Our best minds are occupied building interest on money and devising ever more ingenious ways to make it. Let's just build another Chick-fil-A and high-rise office building over there, eh? When the Renaissance was started by the Medici family in Florence for about the same amount of money, how can we have such massive opportunity and resource but so so little harness? How can we live in such prosperity but have such terrible mental health and well-being? Our society is sick. It is self-destructing, and most of us are welcoming the flames. In this video, I want to talk about n's perspective on nihilism in the decadence that marks the end of

Empires quote. What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently. The ad of nihilism n the will to power. Nihilism is the conviction that life is meaningless, that there is no God, no higher purpose or destiny that can justify the suffering of life. To the nihilist, happiness is fleeting, nature is broken, and life is pointless. Nihilism often comes when Traditional Values, beliefs, and structures lose their significance, leaving people adrift in a meaningless existence. On the one hand, this abandonment of Dogma can liberate higher types to think and live more clearly, but most don't take this path. As n predicted, most of society has fallen into passive nihilism and an apathetic worldview. Today, most people lack all relationship to God, to Beauty, to meaning, and to community, and few aim to really create it. People live without conviction and purpose altogether, and this lack of meaning infects every other aspect of their lives and Society. The majority work jobs they hate, concern

them M El with Petty drama and seek pleasure, and this is a tragic state of affairs. This widespread nihilism creates a culture of Hedonism and division. When there's no point and no goal, anything goes, and camaraderie dies. As Victor Frankle once said, When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure. Part three: the will to power. To understand nihilism from N's perspective, we must understand the will to power, which my previous video covered. Essentially, the will to power is Nietzsche's first principle from which all moral systems and outlooks are based upon. The will to power is the fundamental drive of human life. It seeks increase in the exertion of one's capabilities. Quote: I consider life itself Instinct for growth, for continuance, for accumulation of forces, for power. Where the will to power is lacking, there is decline. Nihilism is the negation of the will to power. This is a key idea that we're going to keep circling back to where the

will to power is alive and well. Life is healthy as we saw in ancient Greece. People adopt moral systems that center around excellence and growth, on individual greatness, and profound liberty. But where the will to power is weak, AKA in sick and captive populations, people adopt more nihilistic outlooks. They no longer aspire to worthy goals or become stronger in their pursuit. Hence, these people start to wither. When the spirit and body are tired, people begin to avoid challenge and ambition altogether. They start to resent suffering, resent the world, and resent the strong, and their morality becomes a soft one. Quote: My assertion is that the values in which mankind at present summarizes its highest ideal are decadence values. I call an animal, a species, an individual depraved when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers what is harmful to it. And that brings us to part four: decadence. I think the term decadence here is key in understanding Nietzsche's diagnosis of modernity. Decadence to Nietzsche is when people

or a species learns to seek out what harms it. When what is collectively thought to be good is actually a great impediment. For instance, we seek out comfort as a good thing. We make Safety and Security and equality High priorities in the west. When in fact all these things make us weak. They make us soft and dampen the feelings of life. You cannot pursue equality as a people and also promote Excellence because Excellence is inherently unequal. You cannot value safety and hope to raise courageous Sons. You cannot stay in Comfort if you wish to grow stronger. Safety Comfort equality and other such values all oppose the will to power. They weaken the feelings of Life hence they were seen as great d ERS to the ancient Greek Aristocrats. Along with most noble peoples across time all Mighty cultures of the past would have valued Excellence over equality and danger over safety any day. Hell the Spartans sent their boys into the wild to either die or become masters of nature. They sought out fear and hardship and even War as positive.

things that created healthy life. This mindset repulses many today, but you have to understand healthy life comes from a healthy will to pass power, and that is full spectrum. It requires a will to grow and master new spaces and oneself, even if it is dangerous. Without aspiration and the overcoming of conflict, there's only decay, there is weakness, and in weakness, there is nihilism. Hey team, I just want to add here that war has taken on a very different color since the time of the Greeks and become a force of pure devastation with our technology. But the will to power is not so much about waging external war. It's about setting a deeply meaningful goal and waging the internal war of self-overcoming. And I have a whole book here about that process. But also, if you want to talk to me one-on-one, there's a link in the description below to schedule a call. Moving on, quote, the question whether not to be is better than to be is itself a disease, a sign of decline, the nihilistic.

movement is the expression of physiological decadence. Today, 70% of America is overweight. They are soft and weak, and very few work out. Very recently, our commercials and media almost exclusively promote the out-of-shape person because it's more inclusive. Physical degeneration and illness is at an all-time high. And n's insight here was: how could anyone have strong values and morals if they have weak bodies? When someone's hormone balance and testosterone are off, their feelings towards life radically change. They tend to seek release rather than triumph. This is what n saw: when you lack vitality and wildness in the flesh, it's nearly impossible to have vitality in the spirit. You will create moral systems and virtues that affirm weakness instead of strength. Nche was in a unique position in order to discern this. He suffered terrible bouts of chronic illness and nihilism, followed by brief periods of flourishing. I think this contrast gave him the lens to perceive different types of thought and desire that arise from different conditions of life. He was

master at discerning what is healthy versus what is disguised sickness. What is ascending versus what is descending. And I think as a whole, that is what a philosopher does. They gain the knowledge of what is robust and healthy so that they can become a doctor or a physician for a sick culture. And following the footsteps of great Renaissance leaders, studied the healthiest culture of all time in order to gain this understanding. Part five: Healthy Life in Ancient Greece. Athens, Sparta, Ephesus, and all the great city-states of ancient Greece were about the size of a small town by today's standards. They were populated by monstrous men that were more beautiful and barbaric than we could imagine. They prized physical excellence, liberty, and good breeding above all. The Greeks were constantly at war with each other but on the side somehow produced the most rapid and vertical growth in culture ever seen. These small towns did more for philosophy, art, architecture, science, and everything else than any other people in the past 2,000 years. How? Why? Why is our

culture so mediocre compared to the rampant Mill of Genius that was ancient Greece. Well as n pointed out, I think it comes down to physiology and one's orientation in life. The Greeks were a heroic people that adopted a noble morality. All their myths promoted ideas like heroic suffering, self-overcoming, and victory. They didn't shy away from tragedy or hardship like we do today but affirmed the wild and difficult nature of existence. Things like ambition, manliness, war, and competition were all venerated as sacred, and the Greeks, like all of our Pagan ancestors, lived in touch with their wild passions. What was seen as good were those things that increase the feelings of life, the will to power. This vitalism is the antidote to the sickness of nihilism. As n pointed out, the nihilism of today is the negation of the will to power. It comes from exhaustion and the promotion of weakness. Quote, What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad

all that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases, that a resistance is overcome. We are an exhausted culture, full of tired people. We are a civilization in steep decline, at the end of its life cycle. We lack the youthfulness and purity of ambition that characterized early Greece, Rome, and 18th-century America. Think of your most vital and youthful seasons of life. These are inherently anti-nihilistic. In fact, the more energetic and ambitious you are, the less nihilistic in general. You've never seen a 5-year-old questioning the meaning of life while building his fort. It is self-evident to him: exploration, experience, creation, and challenge. And that is what the will to power primarily seeks: open spaces to conquer, challenges that are worthy and glorious. And when people fail to find these because of captivity, weakness, or other reasons, they will fall into nihilism and hedonism. And that brings us to part six: the path of pleasure or becoming. Brave and creative men never make.

Pleasure and Pain, ultimate questions. They are secondary conditions, both of them must be desired when one will attain to something. It is a sign of fatigue and illness in these metaphysicians and religious men that they should press questions of Pleasure and Pain into the foreground. The whole antidote to nihilism is the engagement with the will to power, AKA setting goals, achieving things that inspire you, and becoming more free and vital in that process. To deny the will to power is to become Nietzsche's last man, the type of man who no longer aims beyond himself. The last man drifts through life and values experiences based off whether they're painful or pleasurable. Today we're really out of Crossroads. Will you remain a nihilistic bug or become a hero? Lofty aspirations and action is essential. Like the ancient Greeks, we must learn to value experiences on whether they increase the feelings of life, the energy of life, and not based on whether they're painful or pleasurable for those who are feeling stuck, unsure.

or even nihilistic. Watching this video, here's the great secret: meaning and power are intertwined. They go together just as weakness and nihilism do. Power helps you behold greater meaning, and meaning fortifies your strength in times of trouble. As we see in the old myths and tales, the Rapture of divinity is only revealed to Heroes. So stop thinking and philosophizing from a place of weakness. The underworld is full of illusions, but after becoming more powerful and vital, everything becomes more clear. As nature proclaimed, it is time for man to fix his sights on the goal, to aim the arrow of his highest hope. Aspiration has a spiritual power; it is what moves man upward towards the Divine, as individuals and as a society. The time has come to set our aim and to become arrows flying into the sun once more. It is only through reviving the will to power that we can dispel nihilism, become champions of a new age. Hey wisdom warriors, thanks for watching. If you want access to an exclusive community and podcast for revolutionary thinkers, I encourage you

to head over to our school Community which is free forever. If you join this month, also there's a second link in the description to schedule a one-on-one call with me. Thanks for being here, my friends. The movement is just beginning, and if you want to watch more content on n, here's a playlist for you. Peace.

Why our society is sick. Nietzsche's dire prediction

Wisdom Warriors

현대 진보의 딜레마: 비판적 관점

진보라는 개념은 종종 기술 및 경제적 발전과 연관되어 있지만, 오늘날 사회에서는 도덕적, 정신적 타락에 대한 우려가 있습니다.

프리드리히 니체는 진보의 환상 아래 서구의 쇠퇴와 허무주의의 확산에 대해 경고했습니다.

연사는 문화적 응집력 부족, 소비주의에 대한 집중, 미래에 대한 더 큰 비전의 상실을 비판하며 사회적 병폐와 자기 파괴를 강조합니다.

현대 사회의 허무주의, 권력에 대한 의지, 그리고 퇴폐

허무주의는 삶이 무의미하다는 믿음으로, 사람들의 삶에 목적과 신념이 결여되는 것을 말합니다.

이로 인해 개인은 의미 부재 속에서 쾌락에 몰두하면서 쾌락주의와 분열의 문화를 낳았습니다.

니체가 말한 것처럼 권력에 대한 의지는 인간 삶의 원동력이며, 이를 부정하면 사람들은 더 이상 가치 있는 목표를 열망하지 않는 허무주의적 전망으로 이어져 분노와 연약한 도덕성을 낳게 됩니다.

니체에 따르면 퇴폐는 개인이 본능을 잃고 자신에게 해로운 것을 선호할 때 발생하며, 이는 근대성에 대한 니체의 진단을 반영합니다.

인간의 힘과 활력에 대한 가치의 영향

편안함, 안전, 평등을 추구하는 것은 인간의 권력과 힘에 대한 의지를 약화시키는 것으로 여겨집니다.

고대 문화권에서는 탁월함, 위험, 고난을 건강한 삶을 위한 필수 요소로 중요하게 여겼습니다.

현대의 부드러움과 포용성은 신체적 퇴화와 활력 저하로 이어진다는 비판을 받습니다.

체력과 도덕적 가치 사이의 연관성에 대한 프리드리히 니체의 통찰이 강조되고 있습니다.

고대 그리스는 오늘날의 기준으로는 작은 나라였지만 철학, 예술, 과학에 막대한 영향을 미쳤습니다.

신체적 우수성, 자유, 고귀한 도덕성을 강조한 그리스 문화는 빠른 성장과 성공에 기여했습니다.

그리스인들의 고난과 경쟁, 권력에 대한 의지는 오늘날의 허무주의와 나약함의 문화와 차별화되었습니다.

권력에 대한 의지와 허무주의에 대한 해독제

니체에 따르면 행복은 힘을 키우고 저항을 극복하는 데서 비롯됩니다.

현대 사회는 젊음의 야망과 활력이 부족하고 지치고 쇠퇴한 것으로 여겨집니다.

허무주의에 대한 해독제는 권력에 대한 의지를 받아들이고 목표를 세우며 자유와 활력을 위해 노력하는 것입니다.

오래된 신화와 이야기에서 설명하는 것처럼 힘과 의미는 약함과 허무주의와 마찬가지로 서로 연결되어 있습니다.

힘을 받아들임으로써 더 큰 명확성을 얻고 허무주의를 떨쳐버리고 새로운 힘과 목적의 시대로 나아갈 수 있습니다.

연사는 시청자들에게 혁명적 사상가들을 위한 전용 커뮤니티에 가입할 것을 권유하고 일대일 통화를 제안하며 이 운동이 이제 막 시작되었음을 알립니다.