Here’s something I started–and stopped–writing last night, which seems to echo your sentiment here:
"A unified Europe is a paradox, but that’s a good thing. For what is best about Europe is what’s against -doxy, against dogma in it. But perhaps Europe, or the West, is no longer able to be a star, nay, the Sun of the world. "
I then started making a list of world powers, which begins with Europe/the West between brackets, because it’s characterised by variety (Britain, France, etc. etc.). Like “Communism”, Islam seems to have a homogenising “yet” nationalising effect (it was originally the first pan-Arabic religion; compare what that Frenchman in Apocalypse Now Redux says about Vietnamese Communists, and China and Indonesia; Christianity of course also had a similar effect in Europe, originally).
But before all this, I was struck by this passage from Neumann:
“This dependence of all reality upon the superman’s will to overpower nihilism distinguishes Nietzsche’s eternal return teaching from previous ones. Whether Platonic, Stoic or Hindu, earlier teachings asserted that things exist and return eternally because that is their nature and the nature of the universe. A superman’s will was not believed necessary to guarantee that inequality and war never cease or that spring always precede summer or that the sun always rise[.]” (Neumann, “Nietzsche”.)
What struck me was that that’s very much what Hinduism teaches! Nature is what it is because of a superhuman being, God, who even needs avatars to restore or preserve Dharma! And in esoteric Platonism, these “avatars” (consider what Heraclitus says about what gods and heroes really are) are the philosophers. Now the last thing I wrote last night, immediately after I made that list, was this:
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Yo, during my last high before the current one, I wrote:
“I still seem to have a gripe with your answer, Jakob. You’re still talking about predictions and ‘what we see happening’. Yet I think we must at least also will it–and not in the sense of accepting it after the fact.”
This was all I wrote at that point (and possibly the entire night).
Will to Power 133 says:
“Abbé Galiani once said: La prévoyance est la cause des guerres actuelles de l’Europe. Si l’on voulait se donner la peine de ne rien prévoir, tout le monde serait tranquille, et je ne crois pas qu’on serait plus malheureux parce qu’on ne ferait pas la guerre. Since I do not by any means share the unwarlike views of my friend Galiani, I am not afraid of predicting a few things and thus, possibly, of conjuring up the cause of wars.”
It’s not just a matter of predicting, but also of arranging the pieces–in our minds, to begin with.
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I would actually prefer if exoteric Platonisms like Islam were to perish, if Dharma was restored. Perhaps the Mahdi shall turn out to be the Islamic counterpart to Kalki? In any case, with Islam gone, Israel can finally rebuild its Temple, and this could be the perfect symbol of a worldwide return to tribalism. I’m thinking of a new Mahabharata War…