The cage created by God and the extreme sorrow of mankind

Barbara 2022-04-19 09:03:14

God is dead. People are finally free to pursue the meaning of life, open the door, and think that they have seen the light. When he stepped out, he realized that outside the cage, there was only an overwhelming storm and an unpredictable nothingness that filled the universe. free? How can there be traces of things that do not exist?

God is dead. The laws of the world remain unchanged, and all the evils he has created and the scourges he has inflicted on mankind will exist and remain there, just as they have been on the horses of Turin. Man enslaves beasts, God enslaves man. Contact, debase, then seize. Even if human beings are destroyed, the horse of Turin will not be able to obtain wisdom from the herd. In the same way, even if all the gods die, man will not be able to achieve freedom, unable to compete with heaven and earth, and unable to become a god.

God is dead. Nietzsche believes that this is the beginning of the meaning of human life. He believes that he can become the sun, become a superhuman man, relieve all living beings from the shackles of distress, and save all people from fire and water. Of course, when he saw the futile struggle and howling of the Turin horse, he found that he was just an ordinary one among the common people, helpless in the face of the mighty power of heaven and earth. Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs. The worldview collapsed and Nietzsche went mad.

God is dead. The whole world was created by him. God is dead! Is the death of all beings still far away? Everything will eventually fade away!

The water is dry and the light is gone, and all sounds are still. All living beings are extinguished, and Hongmeng returns.

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The Turin Horse quotes

  • Bernhard: Theirs is the moment... nature, infinite silence.

  • Narrator: In Turin on the 3rd of January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert, perhaps to take a stroll, perhaps to go by the post office to collect his mail. Not far from him, the driver of a hansome cab is having trouble with a stubborn horse. Despite all his urging, the horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver - Giuseppe? Carlo? Ettore? - loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche comes up to the throng and puts an end to the brutal scene caused by the driver, by this time foaming at the mouth with rage. For the solidly built and full-moustached gentleman suddenly jumps up to the cab and throws his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. His landlord takes him home, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words "Mutter, ich bin dumm!" and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, under the care of his mother and sisters. We do not know what happened to the horse.