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We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater. We suspect

that things will continue to go down, down, to become more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent.

In the late 19th century, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed that Western civilization

was in a state of decline. It had lost its

creative vitality and was no longer producing men and women who epitomized the grandeur of the West.

Instead, it was producing passive and docile individuals, whose primary aim was chasing shallow

pleasures in obtaining material goods. Nietzsche called these pitiful beings the last man,

and he believed that their collective existence marked the end of a once great civilization.

Alas, the time is coming when man will no more shoot the arrow of his longing out over mankind,

and the string of his bow will have forgotten how to twang.

Alas, the time is coming when man will give birth to no more stars.

Alas, the time of the most contemptible man is coming.

Behold, I shall show you the last man.

In this video, relying on Bernardo Castrip's book The Diamond and the Soul of the West, we examine the

Western identity that the last man has forgotten. We also explore why our well-being as a

Westerner requires that we once again follow the life path upon which this identity was built.

No wonder the Western world feels uneasy, it has lost its moral and spiritual values to a very dangerous degree.

Its moral and spiritual tradition has collapsed and has left a worldwide disorientation and dissociation.

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