This text has this interesting critique of politics and radical politics in particular mirroring religion.

So is it true that, quote, much of radical politics is religion by another name, end quote?

And, you know, is it, as the author says, a mutation of the Christian moral drama equipped with a sort of dogmatic enlightenment concept of progress.

And what would our politics be without this religious form?

Yeah, so I think this is an interesting and worthwhile exploration and actually one that I've,

you know, try to find outlets to kind of tackle this because this is an interesting criticism

of our politics in general.

And I've even heard recent content on like YouTube, for

example, where this exact argument through a Nietzschean lens is raised against communists

and socialist of various sorts. So it's definitely worthwhile, even though it does kind of

depart a tad bit from the bulk of this text because, you know, this thing is thrown out a

couple times, but it's not central to the text. But I saw it as an opportunity to tackle it. So let's go

ahead and get into it. It reminds me immediately of, as I said, you know, Nietzsche's assertion

of the death of God and his profound concerns about what will fill that God-shaped whole

in the hearts of modern men and women. He prophesied various

forms of nihilism that can take hold in the absence of that almighty moral and psychological ballast

that we call God in religion. Many argue that the extreme political movements that arose in the

century following Nietzsche's death, most notably Nazism, but also communism and liberal

capitalism and nationalism more generally, were one way in which we sublimated in an unhealthy

way, our deep desire to have our lives made sense of and our sense of self-fortified

through the everyday grounding rituals of religious faith, the bedrock of unquestionable religious belief,

and the existential relief offered by divinely ordained hierarchies.

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