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Western religious beliefs disintegrated in the great development of capitalism. Nietzsche declared that “God is dead”, and then more and more Westerners felt the pain of Nietzsche. All moral systems in Western society lost their foundation. Nihilism is hard to extricate yourself from.
Although Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, he put forward the “Superman”, trying to make everyone in the West his own “sun”, and then, existentialism, which is opposite to nihilism, did appear in the western philosophical circles.
However, in my opinion, existentialism is a blind cure, but it is not effective enough to save the common people in the West.
- Sartre: Man is free, and nothing human can be considered fundamental.
- Heidegger: What are you doing here? We only need a few to guard the mind
Sartre puts the foundation of human beings on freedom, and the public understanding of “freedom” is in the hands of the capital media. The despair of nothingness becomes the laissez-faire of freedom. And Heidegger gives me the feeling that he is a spiritual aristocrat of a few people, and his thoughts are obviously unable to lead the reform of the general public.
Then, under the media hegemony of capital and the electoral system of the West, modern society is actually in a very dangerous situation. Populism, Nazism, cults, racism and other ideological cancers appear in turn, especially the invention of nuclear weapons, which always reminds me of a psychopath covered in arms, and the prototype of this image is not uncommon in American society. So I have no doubt that one day a real madman will be elected President of the United States. The only hope may be the increasing proportion of ethnic minorities in Western society, but I don’t know whether the historical traditions of ethnic minorities after being robbed by capitalist colonial history and neoliberal ideology have enough vitality to resist Western civilization The whole nothingness. Perhaps, we are already doomed to be the only hope in the village.
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