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My "Intimations of a New Worldview" essay can be thought of as a response to the passage from Nietzsche below. Nietzsche suggested that cultural forces, especially the rise of the scientific enterprise, have caused the moral interpretation of the world to collapse (i.e., the idea that the world is headed towards some kind of end-state utopia). Because this was considered the only possible interpretation of the world, nihilism (i.e., the idea that existence is ultimately meaningless) appears at that point, which led to the worldview collapse that John Vervaeke has called the meaning crisis. But Nietzsche then goes on to ask the question:
"At bottom, it is only the moral god that has been overcome. Does it make sense to conceive a god 'beyond good and evil'?... Can we remove the idea of a goal from the process and then affirm the process in spite of this?"
My answer to this question is yes, and I came to that conclusion largely because of mainstream scientific research, which I review in the essay.
As I said at the end of that essay:
"The Christian-Aristotelian narrative order was participatory. We were participating in the process by which the kingdom of heaven would be built on earth.
In the worldview I’ve put forward in this essay, there is no final “goal” towards which the universe is aiming. Rather, the process itself is the goal. This constitutes an infinite game rather than a finite game. Although we are not participating in a narrative that brings about some final state of utopia, we are capable of participating in a process that is of ultimate value, both for ourselves and for the world at large."
