Our culture is sick. Here's why.
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He sees this principle at work in every realm of human endeavor, from art to religion to philosophy and even modern science.In this video we provide an overview of how the ascetic ideal - nihilism - finds its way into the artistic world through Wagner's Parsifal, into the religious domain through Christianity, in philosophy with Schopenhauer, and finally how even modern science, through Darwin and Copernicus and the like, provides a feeding ground for nihilism.
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