“He can in truth find no further support from without. There no longer exist the organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed him to realize himself wholly, to order his own existence in a clear and unambiguous way, and to defend and apply creatively in his own environment the principal values that he recognizes within himself. Thus there is no question of suggesting to him lines of action that, adequate and normative in any regular, traditional civilization, can no longer be so in an abnormal one–in an environment that is utterly different socially, psychically, intellectually, and materially; in a climate of general dissolution; in a system ruled by barely restrained disorder, and anyway lacking any legitimacy from above.”
nietzsche