The most astonishing thing about Nietzsche, to me, is that academically trained philosophers have taken seriously the fevered rantings of a half[at that time]-crazed individual. It is to some extent entertaining, and there are nuggets of a critique of Modern culture scattered in it here and there, but as ‘philosophy’ it is rubbish.

The enemy of power is justice. Ironically, as it happens “the World” does provide an ethic of justice, one that has both its determiners and its referents located in material existence. It is therefore universal for human beings who acknowledge the validity of the observations from which those determiners and referents follow — i.e., that we are social beings who have no choice but to effect choices (choose among perceived alternatives and take action to bring that choice to fruition).

As such, as an ethic for governing governance among human beings the ethic of ‘real justice’ (mutual respect in effecting choices) must take precedence over any beliefs (theological or ideological) within the large but finite domain of effecting choices. In short, the thinking person’s alternative to religion (and ideology) isn’t nihilism or ‘the will to power’, but “Real Justice” (here in Medium).