00:02:13.140And he was, in a way, reading the Bible backwards because the book of Revelation was the lens through which he saw everything.
00:02:22.080This vision of the Antichrist and the destruction of the world and the coming Jerusalem and triumph of Jesus is how he looked back at the entirety of the Bible.
00:02:34.320But he also did something profound, and this is why earlier I said he's like a Hegelian five or 600 years early, or he's like Francis Fukuyama, or he's Marx even, hundreds of years before those people would come on the scene.
00:02:51.280I think you can properly do an intellectual genealogy to him, and that's that there's a correspondence between the Old and the New Testament, but that actually reveals to us the present, and so you can understand history by understanding the correspondence between the Testaments.0.68
00:03:14.560And reading the book of Revelation, he actually made a correct prediction to Lucius III that Jerusalem would fall to the Muslims. And this occurred three years after he spoke these words, and he, of course, became a famous, you know, Nostradamus avant la lettre, etc.
00:03:35.080He was able to think of history. And in this way, history itself becomes sacred. So Nietzsche had a poignant line in the gay science where he criticized Hegel for holding off atheism for a bit, in a way.
00:03:57.500God is dead, and many of the people, the last man doesn't even care in a way, but someone like Hegel, what he did was that he made the profane or the secular holy.0.64
00:04:14.040So yes, God is dead. It's hard to believe in those fairy tales as anything but metaphors, but actually history itself is sacred.
00:04:25.520And, you know, if you know just a little bit about Hegel, you know of him as a philosopher of history, the notion that the spirit, interesting term, Geist in German, passed him when he saw Napoleon on a battlefield.
00:04:43.360And that basically the slaughter bench of world history that seems to be irrational, primitive, horrible, or even boring is actually working its way out to an end point, a revelation, you could say.
00:05:02.420And he saw that actually in the Prussian state. But other people, the left Galians that we talked about a few weeks ago saw that as working itself out into socialism and communism, etc. Francis Fukuyama, famously or infamously, it works itself out in liberal capitalism, where there's some democracy and some freedom and some capitalist economics, and this is the final state of things.
00:05:30.340You can't really criticize Americanism. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there's no alternative. And even the critics of Americanism are themselves Americanist. So people will say, oh, well, yeah, you say America's so great. Well, why are there all these homeless people?
00:05:49.520Or, you know, why are grocery prices going up so much? But all they're basically saying is that, you know, we've got the ratio of democracy and capitalism a little bit off and we need to fine tune it.
00:06:05.540they're not really criticizing america even the far left maybe this is changing now but even the
00:06:12.580far left was embarrassed by the soviet union and not willing to put forward the soviet union as
00:06:17.760a real alternative or as uh the ones in the know leading us to a brighter future and for fukuyama
00:06:24.680we have reached the end times and um it's interesting in that book he it's the the end
00:06:30.240of history and the last man so he worries about the end times creating the last man as Nietzsche0.95
00:06:36.060understood it this dumb boring Walmart shopper or corporate middle manager who has no spirit he's a0.83
00:06:45.880man without a chest there's no desire in the world there's no frontier to conquer you're not going to0.99
00:06:53.080sail your ships into uncharted seas you're just going to sort of uh netflix and chill for the
00:07:00.220next thousand years which is uh maybe uh accurate um anyway uh so joaquin he he basically had a
00:07:10.440vision of a harp at one point which he thought of as an epiphany and it's a kind of triangular harp
00:09:32.100One, he's the son of God and the son of man. That is Jesus Christ. But I think the last man, too, is a sort of person that's... Nietzsche hated the last man. I mean, no doubt about it.
00:09:50.220but he is still a person who's sort of overcome history.
00:09:55.860You know, he'll never need to be drafted in the army
00:10:00.020and go invade some country at the whim of some prince or another.
00:10:11.740And he's just going to Netflix and chill.0.97
00:10:14.380There's like an irony where he's both kind of dumb, but then he's also sort of the product of all of mankind, if you understand what I'm saying.0.99
00:10:30.580Yeah, I know. I mean, I think that they are, one obviously is pejorative, and the other, especially from the Jewish perspective, is not pejorative.0.96
00:10:39.960it's positive um but i but it they are related in the sense that it does seem that these the
00:10:48.020same conditions are leading to the same type the same type or or we could regard them as two
00:10:55.260different types but they're emerging from the same conditions ultimately right they're a devolution
00:11:00.460or evolution for uh from man for better or worse yes it also reminds us again of the concept of
00:11:09.340jesus as um uh the alpha and the omega right in the and the second atom someone in the chat said
00:11:18.540the last atom uh gavin said that but i don't know if the term last atom is used maybe it is
00:11:23.240uh or but the term the second atom or the new atom yeah um in any case i'll let you uh i'll
00:11:30.840let you continue well don't you think as as well like i i do think they're related because
00:11:35.340you know jesus doesn't arrive in the book of judges or something where there's all this just
00:11:43.960warfare and you you have like the rule of these badass chieftains you know they're they're hitting
00:11:52.600spikes into people's heads and you know sacrificing their daughters to y'all i mean it's it he doesn't
00:12:00.040live in that world he he lives in a a more civilized age but but also a sort of more
00:12:06.600decadent age you know it's it's sort of like you know we don't need to do that anymore just
00:12:14.180love one another man you know i i think he's like the big lumbowski or
00:12:20.780zoran mandami or something i i there is this like post man that is never going to
00:12:29.540need to struggle in the way that previous humans absolutely had to struggle i mean previous humans
00:12:38.140most of your children wouldn't reach the age of three you know and just death was everywhere
00:12:47.340yeah i i think you're right i think that you're right they they are but it's almost like they're
00:12:52.300seen from uh two different perspectives again the last man seems a kind of a pejorative designation
00:12:58.520definitely but as someone pointed out in the chat and i'm looking at bible hub right now um
00:13:04.660the last adam i.e the last man is is a um apathet that's also given to jesus and it may be given in
00:13:14.060multiple places i'm looking at uh one corinthians 15 45 so it is written the first man adam became
00:13:21.920a living spirit the last adam a life-giving spirit and that's a reference to jesus yeah
00:13:28.880i think if the way that i would put it it's it's like if if the antichrist in the jewish
00:13:38.340and christian imagination is someone who is absolutely a false christ on one level but but
00:13:44.920also opposed to the meaning of Christ. It's almost like Nietzsche turned the last man
00:13:53.900into a sort of antichrist. Now, he declared himself the antichrist, of course. But what I
00:13:59.180mean is that this last man is everything to be despised. And it's not quite that he's dumb0.99
00:14:07.520It's that, or that he's evil or wicked.0.99
00:14:11.020Nietzsche liked people who are wicked.
00:14:36.840because that that's the ultimate form of nihilism and so the last man almost become like in the
00:14:44.460structure of his thought the last man is almost the antichrist if you will in the sense of this
00:14:51.320like embodiment of everything terrible yeah and i mean another reading of the last man uh
00:14:58.820is also what the last man jesus produces which is the christian right yeah it's the last man
00:15:06.260And as it's described in Revelations, as we'll read, I mean, essentially, it's a return to Eden.
00:15:12.440So esoterically, it's a kind of return to a period of softness and decadence, ultimately, is what's being described, because that's what Eden is.
00:15:21.280And this New Jerusalem described in Revelations is clearly a reference to Eden.
00:15:26.500It's got the tree of life, the river of life, and so forth.
00:16:20.720We spent a little time and delighted in just like pointing out all, all the reasons why0.88
00:16:26.100this is clearly Christian propaganda, essentially.
00:16:28.460But even these sort of details that we're revealing now, we're not even revealing. These are available and known. I mean, these people who are like Norse bros and like Viking dudes or whatever, they should know these things. Right.
00:16:40.780I don't think that they're familiar with these very basic details that we're providing here.
00:16:46.820And but yeah, so I but but to get back to the point, it's it does seem that maybe these kind of conditions of decadence, because that's also what Nietzsche is describing with The Last Man is essentially a period of super abundance and decadence so that man loses his purpose.
00:17:08.900life is too easy and so forth this is essentially the new eden or new jerusalem uh that's implied in
00:17:16.660the metaphor of eden even the word eden uh the garden so eden means like luxury essentially
00:17:23.460decadence right yeah um and that's why things go so topsy-turvy ultimately in eden with adam and
00:17:31.700eve in genesis right yeah um getting back to fiore just um here for a little bit but so he had this
00:17:40.900image of a triangular harp and so the the strings of the harp you could say are the two testaments
00:17:49.220and so they they both need to be struck to make music so there's harmony and that's harmony and
00:17:57.140And so the Old and New Testaments are one.
00:18:00.160You can see Jesus in the Old Testament.
00:18:02.700The mock sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham
00:18:06.440or aborted sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham is Christ.
00:18:11.740As I'll mention in this passage, I'll read,
00:18:13.920he brought Daniel into the book of Revelation, etc.