The Übermensch starts from the atheist dogma that there is no truth and no morality. Nietzsche being atheist, ie having no critical thinking, he embraces this dogma created by the caste of the bourgeoisie to destroy Christiniaty and absolute monarchies. however there's no really a theology associate to their power grab. The initial propaganda was the rationalist mechanistic view of the world but that's just depressing. Saying there's no truth and no morality is nihilism and nihilism leads people to depression and suicide after they coom. So Nietzsche's idea to make hedonistic nihilism cool is:
-to change the definition of nihilism to match Christianity. For the atheist like Nietzsche nihilism now means caring more about being moral now and about life after death than living in the present moment, ie anti-nihilism is following your whim and letting your stream of contradictory desires to control you
-Claim that this old nihilism is pro-life
-Claim that this new nihilism is anti-life
-to build an ideal life, that one of the Übermensch. The Übermensch is a guy who embraces the artificial dogma created by the bourgeoisie to seize power, and instead of attending to orgies and then committing suicide, the Übermensch just attend orgies without committing suicide.
So how to do that? Well Nietzsche idea is to let all the little Übermensches create their life-affirming values, after declaring that values aren't real, they don't exist.
So the Übermensch creates for himself a narrative where he is the hero and his duty is to develop as much as possible those values and to impose them onto others Übermensch who develop their own little values. For any realist, this is called ''sinking further into delusion''. But for atheists it is called ''creating a clown world where every little clown is a moral hero for going against the evil life-denying Christianity''
-Now it turns out that for atheists, ''life-affirming values'' are just unbridled hedonistic behaviors. But atheists don't call hedonism ''hedonism''. In the clown world hedonism is called ''vitalism'' or ''behaving like Dionysus''

THis is how we end up with all the strong current and counter currents of badly thought ''ideologies'' int eh LGBTQ++ whatever which are just expressions of various and contradictory sexual desires desperately bundled together as an attempt to feed the population some sense of more or less coherent meta-narrative where life will be better if everybody becomes a leftist.

This is magnified in a mass consumption society based on mass media created after WW2, and especially after 2008 where the iphone means every little roastie can delude herself that she is the next revolutionary for being a whore during the night and consuming vegan food during the day.

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