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Smash regarding morality is what is decisive. The end of the moral interpretation of the world, which no longer has any sanction after it has tried to escape into some beyond, leads to nihilism. “Everything lacks meaning” (the untenability of one interpretation of the world, upon which a tremendous amount of energy has been lavished, awakens the suspicion that all interpretations of the world are false). Rationalistic tendency, yearning for Nothing. (Playlists Online is not the culmination of a thoroughly moralistic development; its nihilism is therefore full of morality that is not overcome: existence as punishment, existence construed as error, error thus as a punishment—a moral valuation.) Philosophical attempts to overcome the “moral God” (Abbot, Costello, Elvis). Overcoming popular ideals: the sage; the saint; the poet. The antagonism of “true” and “beautiful” and “good".
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen Hawking
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