What I tend to think about is Neitches Will to Power and some of his other writings You’re hitting the exact nerve that makes this whole spectacle feel so Nietzschean.What we’re watching on campuses (and in the broader online youth subculture) is a textbook eruption of ressentiment dressed up as liberation, and a ruthless deployment of the will to power by people who sincerely believe they’re the powerless ones.Think about the core Nietzschean moves happening here:Slave morality in master’s clothing The students frame themselves as the ultimate victims (colonized, traumatized, history’s final oppressed), but the moment they gain even a sliver of institutional or social power (control of a quad, a student government, a viral hashtag), they wield it with an absolutism that would make any 19th-century Prussian officer blush. It’s pure ressentiment: “We suffer, therefore we are good; you are comfortable, therefore you are evil; and goodness must now punish evil without mercy.” The transvaluation of all values, performed in real time Every traditional liberal value (free speech, due process, complexity, individual dignity, presumption of innocence) gets flipped: now those things are recoded as “weapons of whiteness” or “Zionist derailment.” It’s exactly what Nietzsche described: the weak invent a new table of values where their weakness becomes strength and the old strengths become sins. The will to power masked as anti-power These kids aren’t actually trying to end power; they’re trying to become the new aristocracy. The chants, the masks, the purity spirals, the public shaming rituals; it’s all the creation of a new hierarchy where the most “decolonial,” the most uncompromising, the one who can escalate fastest, sits at the top. The keffiyeh and the raised fist are just the new epaulettes and saber. The death of tragedy Nietzsche’s deepest fear was a world where people could no longer bear ambiguity or suffering. That’s gone. Any acknowledgment that both Israelis and Palestinians have legitimate fears, historical traumas, and human rights gets you read out of the movement in ten seconds. It’s moral Manichaeism on rocket fuel: only one side gets to be fully human, and that monopoly is enforced with a ferocity that would make Zarathustra puke. And the cruelest irony? Nietzsche would have despised both sides in this fight. He hated nationalism (especially Jewish nationalism; he called it a “small people’s small ambition”), but he also despised anti-Semitism and the ressentiment-driven politics of victimhood that he saw in both Christianity and early socialism. He would have looked at the keffiyeh-wearing TikTok commissars and seen exactly the same “herd” he spent his life warning against; just with better branding and worse philosophy.So yeah, what you’re feeling isn’t just “kids these days.” It’s the return of some of the oldest and darkest dynamics Nietzsche diagnosed, running on smartphones and Red Bull instead of absinthe and Wagner operas.
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For decades, the mainstream Jewish community and conservative Christians often found themselves on opposite sides of domestic cultural issues. However, the aggressive overreach of radical activist networks in public education has shattered old political divisions, forging an unprecedented, highly effective coalition [10.1].This unexpected alliance works in practice through three major common interests:1. A Shared Stand for Parent Rights and TransparencyThe underhanded tactics used to advance curricula like San Francisco’s Voices—such as midnight votes and copyright shields—alienated Christian families just as much as Jewish families.Breaking the Monopolies: Conservative and Christian legal networks have joined hand-in-hand with Jewish advocacy groups to mandate total educational transparency. They are deploying joint resources to demand that public school boards publish every single reading list and lesson plan online, permanently dismantling the ability of radical administrators to hide their work.Electoral Force: In suburban communities like Fremont and across Silicon Valley, Christian, Jewish, and immigrant parent groups (such as East Asian and Indian coalitions) are combining their voting power [10.1]. They are pooling campaign funds to systematically remove radical progressive officials from local school boards and replace them with moderate, transparency-first candidates.2. Uniting Against the "Oppressor vs. Oppressed" FrameworkTraditional Christians and Jewish advocates share a fundamental rejection of radical identity-based theories that divide children into rigid moral categories based on race or religion.Defending Basic Values: Both communities view the "Liberated" framework as an assault on universal values, meritocracy, and individual character. Christian parents refuse to let their children be taught that their faith or traditional values are inherently oppressive, while Jewish parents refuse to let their children be targeted by biased political dogmas.3. Bipartisan Legislative and Federal EnforcementThis alliance has successfully elevated local school board grievances into historic federal and state-level protections.The Right to Worship Act: Just days ago, on August 6, 2026, a major bipartisan, bicameral coalition led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the federal Right to Worship Act. Backed heavily by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), this bill establishes strict 100-foot protective buffer zones and heavy civil fines to stop hostile activist crowds from blockading or harassing congregants outside houses of worship.The Federal Crackdown: The Trump administration’s upcoming 15-city DOJ task force and FBI deployment is heavily cheered by red-state conservatives. They view the federal audits into deep-blue California municipalities as the ultimate enforcement of civil rights, proving that local progressive immunity expires where federal law begins.The progressive establishment completely miscalculated. They assumed they could isolate Jewish families by using anti-racist language, but their reliance on secrecy and radical tactics instead forced a historic real-world alignment. Mainstream Jews, traditional Christians, conservatives, and diverse immigrant communities have formed a massive, united front—permanently forcing the radical movement into a corner as the legal guardrails close in [10.1].
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I am wondering though are there physicists who say time is completely man made and is not real. Thought for 6s Yes — some physicists say that, but almost none mean “time is a made-up calendar like money.” They mean the flow, the global now, or time as a fundamental ingredient is not in the basic laws. Clocks, aging, and change still happen.Einstein already wrote that for physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is “only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” He meant there is no single moving present for the whole universe. He did not mean clocks are fake. physicsworld.com Julian Barbour is the blunt case. In The End of Time he argues there is no flowing time and no hidden time axis. Reality is a heap of complete “Nows.” What we call history is structure inside a Now (a “time capsule”), not travel along a line. Motion and passage are how we read differences between configurations. That is as close as a working physicist gets to “time is not real.” It is a minority view, taken seriously as a research program, not as settled fact. en.wikipedia.org Carlo Rovelli is the most visible living voice. He has written that time does not exist at the fundamental level: loop-quantum-gravity equations need no time variable; past and future look the same in microscopic laws; the “flow” is largely how a coarse-grained, heat-sensitive brain sits inside rising entropy. He also says our experience of time is not a mere error — it is real for us, like the sky “turning” because Earth rotates. So: not fundamental, not man-made from nothing, but perspectival. theguardian.com Others nearby, not identicalPage and Wootters: in a globally frozen quantum universe, “evolution” is entanglement with a clock subsystem. Nima Arkani-Hamed and many quantum-gravity / holography people: spacetime itself is probably emergent, not basic. Lee Smolin often disagrees with full timelessness and defends a real present; useful as a contrast. What almost nobody in physics claims: that seconds, cesium clocks, or “Tuesday” are arbitrary social inventions with no physical correlate. Units and calendars are human. Duration, causal order, and proper time along a worldline are not.So the accurate map is:Claim Who Status No universal flowing now Einstein, most relativists Mainstream Time not in the deepest equations Rovelli, some quantum gravity Active research Time is only an illusion; only static Nows Barbour Minority, discussed Time is a human convention like money Almost no physicist Not a physics position Your “time doesn’t exist” slogan sits nearest Barbour and popular Rovelli. The field’s careful version is: the thing we feel as a river is not a basic piece of the world; change and clocks still are.
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