Incipit Tragoedia (Now begins the tragedy). These eerily omniscient words of Nietzsche seem to holding water now. Nietzsche’s popularity appears to being growing perhaps it was Little Miss Sunshine, or perhaps it was because this man saw into the future machinations of our now lives of despondency. “God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!”Although it seems the belief in God is climbing and fervent fundamentalists are popping up everywhere, Nietzsche’s insight into what the death of God means is certainly correct. Our moral justifications are becoming increasingly thin.  These true believers justify their hate by invoking their God’s word and compartmentalize the other sections of his word to avoid a paradox. There are people shunning our greatest scientific achievements to believe in a theory that the earth is flat (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7540427.stm notice the underpants gnome argument spherical earth = profit). While that last bit seems like it has nothing to do with the death of God if we refer back to Descartes it surely does. To the rationalist Descartes we are able to know with certainty because God is not a deceiver.

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
Wife
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

The era of the tangible is gone. Children buy stuffed animals to gain an online pet and quickly dismiss its substantive counterpart. People live second lives with even more meaningless jobs as an escape.  Media being bought and sold in a digital form only, books with no printing press, and letters with no penmanship, the era of intangibility has arrived. Where these consequences reach I haven’t the faintest.

“One of the proudest achievements of modernity is its investment in freedom of every kind, personal, moral, and economic. At our most hopeful – and most arrogant – we feel being modern means having arrived at a point where constraint can be routed, or at least reduced as far as possible.” (From Beyond Fate by Margaret Visser) So the beauty of our modern day is to bypass silly superstitions of absolutes whether in ourselves or in our morality. In essence the thing modern man can feel most proud about is making all values and deeds superfluous. Visser feels that fate has clung on to our lives in metaphors and superstition and that it must be purged like the unclean. My question to her is why is something that adds a certain amount of necessity to actions and lives so devious? Nietzsche himself said to love our fates and after all wasn’t he the first post-modern.