It’s still the only thing. That is to say, the only European philosophic branch that matters.
Nietzsche, power, values, the value of power, power as (the) value, value as (the) power;
there is nothing else, really
Our structural integrity, our ‘soul’, depends wholly, as we all know, on the values we pursue and uphold. All of us can be seen doing his - all of us cling, sometimes desperately and violently, to what we perceive as our bottom line values.
If we dont our being, our self-experience, disintegrates.
During this atrocious time, where stupidity, cowardice and credulity, passivity of the soul, absence of the soul, seem to be rewarded, the pre-eminence of the self-valuing logic is actually harder than it has been before in my experience;
the temptation to give into other values, to values that directly negate ones own value-integrity, is greater than it has been for a long time - perhaps than it ever was - and thus the rewards for staying true are also, comparatively at the very least, extremely high.
Those who dare to draw their actions from their own integrity are the happy few, the happy isles… emitting the Supermanly pathos.
For two thousand years this will be taught (likely) and only then will it have been ingrained in the majority of the species.
It is a hard task.
What the key-weight of it is, is to de-trivialize real existence in the face of ideal, abstract existence;
its task is, the task a one who ventures to attempt to think in terms of valuing as being is, to face existence directly. To no longer attain an idea of its through abstraction, but to engage it immediately from and within the core of ones own consciousness, the kernel of it, the ‘heart’;
to endure the heart as the actual fact of existence, instead as that which reflects on, suffers, enjoys existence.
To endure ones own valuing (loving, needing, any kind of valuing) as existentially equivalent to the structural core of existence itself;
this is the explication of “Hadit”, per Crowleys cosmology, he had not yet explicated it.
I bring together the work of Crowley and Nietzsche.