Perhaps he meant that we have lost a sense of higher purpose?
a period of absurdity where people have no order, no truth, and no goals or ideals to pursue as the protective and meaning-to-life giving character of religion has disappeared.
I would suggest that we have entered an age of greed.
You could certainly find no end of people whose religion has become the accumulation of material things. They would certainly feel they have order, truth and goals, and they've probably got a spreadsheet to track them and calculate prophets and losses.
Yes, that's exactly what Nietzsche means. I'm sorry for not making it all too clear. The loss of a sense of higher purpose is what he calls 'passive nihilism', and Nietzsche would urge us to overcome it by finding our own higher purpose.
He warns us that we would enter an age of greed, but also an age where mediocrity prevails and the outstanding are trampled upon, an age of relativism where everything is equally good and where people feel good about themselves but are unable to create their own values - sheep people.
Let's see if I can pen down a new post to clarify this.
I think you just did @chhaylin ;-)
And we seem to have drifted right into the very situation you described.
I don't suppose Nietzsche offered suggestions on how to correct that?
Or would that have been too easy for him? i.e. No rewards/growth without struggle.
Nietzsche offered suggestions. He wrote how we could find our authenticity, and how we can build our own values. He described it in quite valorous terms. He was extremely concerned with our society, and gave us some ideas on how we could become a 'higher type of man' - the Ubermensch. Part of it is indeed to learn to overcome our struggles, because there's only rewards/growth through struggles.
All you ever seem to hear about Nietzsche is the "that which does not kill me..." quote.
Or this... ;)
That's better.
;-)
You mean this ;)
I hadn't even made that connection.
He totally ripped her song off. ;-)
You mean this ...
Nope, definitely NOT that. ;-)