Nihilism, Neitzche and the experience of drug use.

[FuBai]

Originally Posted by Nietzche

"What I am going to relate is the history of the next two centuries. I shall describe what will happen, what must necessarily happen: the triumph of Nihilism. This history can be written already; for necessity itself is at work in bringing it about. The future is already proclaimed by a hundered different omens; as a destiny it announces its advent everywere; for this music of tomorrow all ears are pricked. The whole of our culture in Europe has long been writhing in an agony of suspense wich increases from decade to decade as if in expectation of a catastrophy: restless, violent, helter-skelter, like a torrent that will reach its bourne, and refuses to reflect - yea, that even dreads reflection."

I wonder what the visitors of DF will make of this statement in light of revelations or insights dervied from drug use. Does addiction and desperation promulgate a nihilistic perspective? Have insights into the moral contradictions within the war on drugs made any readers of this post question more profoundly the nature and relevance of morality? In a larger sense, does this idea - that of an inevitable progression towards nihilistic thought - reflect in anyway a progress DF members have made or one that has occured in society as a whole?

I feel it necessary, for those who have not read what Nieztche continues to say, to quote a later paragraph to more accurately reflect is meaning.

"On the other hand, the present writer has done little else, hiterto, than reflect and meditate, like an instinctive philosopher and anchorite, who found his advantage in isolation - in remaining outside, in patience, procrastination, and lagging behind; like a weighing and testing spirit who as already lost his way in every labarinth of the future; like a prophetic spirit-bird that looks backwards when it would announce what is to come; like the first perfect European Nihilist, who, however, has already outlived Nihilism in his own soul - who as outgrown, overcome, and dismissed it...nevertheless it is a necessary step...Sooned or later we shall be in need of new values."