Meaning 2.0—with its extension of inalienable rights to everyone regardless of belief or background, offered inclusion—but at the price of salvation. That was what Nietzsche was talking about when he observed that “God is dead.” We got the vote, the fridge, and the smartphone, but we forgot what it was all for. That has played a large part in the rise of diseases of despair. Fundamentalism on one hand and nihilism on the other. Neither is especially helpful.
