Was it not necessary to sacrifice God himself, and out of cruelty to themselves to worship stone, stupidity, gravity, fate, nothingness? To sacrifice God for nothingness—this paradoxical mystery of the ultimate cruelty has been reserved for the rising generation; we all know something thereof already.
Woah Nietzsche was hundreds of years in the future here… consumer culture and hedonism hello,,, the priority for the instant pleasure and rampant consumption of culturally abundant goods like water bursting from a dam (and the mass repeated consumption leading to no long-term pleasure = the sacrifice for nothingness)
also hints at Nietzsche's nihilism, that without spirituality, in a society that has been so heavily build around and influenced by religion, people have lost a notion of being able to ascribe meaning to things for themselves
