#second synthesis

To remain within the second synthesis is not only to remain within the Inside, it is to act, as if in a play, in the manner of Nietzsche’s passive nihilist, the total loss of meaning and purpose as the state of the last man, and yet one feels as if the contemporary aesthetics of nihilism suffocated the transcendental reality of passivity. To only glare at the herd one notes that the romantic ideal of nihil obscures the life of the last man. There is the herd with their homes, values and beliefs, all of which they believe in unconsciously, and so even their lives are full of abstractions which they utilize as poles of meaning. It is both a question of letting the Outside In and getting the Inside Out, whereby the former function often simultaneously enacts the latter