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“While the Nietzschean tracing of cultural formations to the will-to-power still results in a suspicion of religion, it also tends to assert the inevitably religious or mythic-ritual shape these formations must take.

[It] embodies an ontology of power and conflict which is simply another mythos, a kind of re-invented paganism.

Post-Nietzschean social theory suggests the practical inescapability of worship.”

In the calm grandeur of a sober line,
We see the waving of the mountain pine;
And when a tale is beautifully staid,
We feel the safety of a hawthorn glade:
When it is moving on luxurious wings,
The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings
…
While at our feet, the voice of crystal bubbles
Charms us at once away from all our troubles:
So that we may feel uplifted from the world…