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's 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 out that's 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 Nietzsche and lens

is raised against communists of

and socialists 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 hole 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 Naziism, 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.

The horrors of the 20th century are presented as proof that Nietzsche's concerns were valid,

and yet few real answers to the conundrums he raised are forthcoming.

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