What makes it so we are afraid to be alone with ourselves as Nietzsche and/or Freud explain with regard to the herd mentality?
Nietzsche proclaimed the demise of God when he announced, “God is dead.” With this Nietzsche believed we lost a standard of religious values. Do you agree or disagree with Nietzsche? Have we lost a standard of religious values regarding death? Explain your answer (Fairfield 57).
Why do humans turn their “backs on life” (Fairfield 57)?
What does our reading mean by a “feeling of emptiness or vacuity” (Fairfield 59)? How does this impact our lives?
What do you believe has impacted the forgetfulness of life more, mass society, nostalgia and rootlessness, hyperstimulation and hyperactivity, or demystification? Explain your answer.
Reference:
Fairfield, Paul. Death and Life, Algora Publishing, 2001. ProQuest Ebook Central, Print.