A Taste of Armageddon?
I reread a piece over at the Sublime Oblivion blog that spoke to me in a way. Though I do not necesssarily subscribe to all of this, the last paragraph of this post, aptly titled "Armageddon" says something interesting and, I think potentially profound:
"At the end of history, there will be a clash of civilizations; each of whose essence will be defined by the noosphere’s collective unconscious, for by then the fusion of technology and postmodernism will have enabled all to create their own reality. The megalothymiacs will rise out of their millennial slumber and sow chaos across the world; men will once again know what is good and what is evil. The unwitting slaves of Belief and the nihilist masters of Chaos will wage one final apocalyptic War of the Spirit, Armageddon, which is a synthesis of struggle and suicide, and one of the forms of Sublime Oblivion."
I think postmodernism and the disease of relativism it has brought into the world will eventually be extirpated as a major philosophy of the world. This will happen when man finally confronts the nihilism of Nietzsche's abyss and chooses: faith or Ubermensch.
One way or the other, the abyss will be conquered.
"At the end of history, there will be a clash of civilizations; each of whose essence will be defined by the noosphere’s collective unconscious, for by then the fusion of technology and postmodernism will have enabled all to create their own reality. The megalothymiacs will rise out of their millennial slumber and sow chaos across the world; men will once again know what is good and what is evil. The unwitting slaves of Belief and the nihilist masters of Chaos will wage one final apocalyptic War of the Spirit, Armageddon, which is a synthesis of struggle and suicide, and one of the forms of Sublime Oblivion."
I think postmodernism and the disease of relativism it has brought into the world will eventually be extirpated as a major philosophy of the world. This will happen when man finally confronts the nihilism of Nietzsche's abyss and chooses: faith or Ubermensch.
One way or the other, the abyss will be conquered.
Posted by Greg R Lawson at 12/15/2011 4:43 PM 
Categories: History Philosophy
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Categories: History Philosophy
Tags: History Philosophy
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