Nietzsche
...e, people focus too much on the past and future, when they should just live life as is. God is dead and the new idol is the state. It controls us and gives a means to live and continue our existence. Yet because the state is shady and you can't trust it, we still offer our "dead" God lip service. The will of power allows us to overcome ourselves. We must do this because we have become stagnant creatures. Following evolution, we started out as apes and seeing that we became better than ourselves, human. But as humans we developed an attitude that we don't need to change, so we then again become stuck. Going into solitude, we can take a step back and see what we have become. These mindless creatures that are sheep in a herd. We act and think according to our society. No one is original anymore because to our peers that is abnormal and wrong. In that case, when things get old, we change yet again our society's standards and traditions. And the state makes this so much easier. The state perpetuates and allows it to go on. By looking at old values, we create s...