I do not care at all about all this woman stuff. Though what I criticize is the rather silly notion of self-improvement. Not only is this not possible if one lacks the talents or intelligence for it—see eugenics and “female eugenics”—, but given that most of them are atheists, I fail to see why they, and many other atheists, seem to suggest that existence itself is self-explanatory. Meaning that you really need no higher purpose to live—Christ—but instead believing that one’s life will end in death and nothingness with the species going extinct at some point is totally worth it.
Nietzsche was more honest. In 1882, he wrote:
“I do not want life again. How did I endure it? Creating. What makes me stand the sight of it? The vision of the overman who affirms life. I have tried to affirm it myself. Alas!”
I’ll also note that many of them are crass materialists, occupied the whole time with working, getting money and degrees to increase their supposed “value”. Unfortunately, this is true for many Christians on the right as well.
I side with Gómez Dávila:
Our soul has a future.
Humanity has none.Prayer, war, tillage are manful occupations.
Every man lives his life like a pent-up animal.
Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.
I would not live for even a fraction of a second if I stopped feeling the protection of God’s existence.
If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism.
The rest is rhetoric.We should not conclude that everything is permitted, if God does not exist, but that nothing matters.
Permission ends up being laughable when what is permitted loses its meaning.Whoever merely resigns himself to his lot feels frustrated by a destiny without meaning.
Whoever humbly accepts it knows that he just does not understand the significance of the divine decision concerning him.One has to believe in God in order to ascribe meaning to things.
The soul surpasses the world, whereas the world encompasses humanity.
The insignificance of humanity renders “philosophies of history” ridiculous, whereas the infinite price of each human soul vindicates religion.