You Must Believe In Your Legend. Christ or The Ubermench
As I loathed myself, mindlessly working for scraps, lazing about in my free time—the pathetic last man that I am—a revelation struck me. We, as men, must walk the path of the legends and paragons who came before us. We must feed into the delusion, so to speak, even if we cannot fully walk the walk. Through such belief come the actions that begin to make the legend take shape. But if you walk your path doubting, or finding it cringe—if you think you’re LARPING, that these thoughts are just whimsical, mystical nonsense—then of course it will become unattainable. The world is more mystical than we allow it to be. Industrialization, individualism, the death of religion, and the push for science and reason have snuffed it out. Alexander, Napoleon, Caesar, and other figures like them believed in their divine spark—their capacity to accomplish great things, not merely the mundane—and thus they built the greatest empires the world had ever seen, and their names have yet to disappear from our lips. They did not fret over whether they could; they just took action. They believed they were the sons of gods, and thus they held within them an unending fire that would burn the world around them and create what they saw. Now, I am not saying to abandon reason and realism for mysticism and idealism. No—both are necessary to live in the world. They complement each other, and we’ve seen it in the great men who came before us. In a world of suffocating realism and nihilism, we who were born of lesser men must be the ones to light some idealism and magic back into the world. We must allow ourselves to believe that the forces around us can be shaped to our benefit. And so I say that Christ or the Übermensch is the only way forward—Christianity or Nietzsche. Both are philosophies and ways of life that are unapologetically life-affirming, that seek to push man beyond his nature and his weakness. Christ for those who can still feel the presence of God in a world that killed Him; the Übermensch for those who cannot feel God yet must fight for life. Whichever is chosen, it matters not, for both share the same sentiment: Man is something that must be overcome. We, as men, must overcome our nature to bring beauty and glory into the world, and to stop those who openly worship demons and commit acts of evil from destroying it.