Banalizacija in nivelizacija

Banalization and Leveling --- The need for a new mythology, expressed in the oldest program of the system of German idealism, already indicates the social topicality of the phenomenon that arose and came to be called nihilism. Hölderlin’s poetry expressly takes on the role of the new mythmaker. The invocation of Dionysus, the god of community, the god of all, the “common god,” aims to offer an alternative to the then-existing but still current lack of a sense of commonality and community. The nihilistic echo of man’s contemporary liberation from the shackles he has imposed on himself shows us that behind the strategies of emancipation lies a unified schematism. Thanks to it, the connection between liberation and individualization that is taken for granted in modern thinking is abolished. The irresponsibility of the contemporary world works by leveling every innovative step forward, and at the same time it does not see its own decision as the beginning of a new norm. In modern conditions, the will for new, different, original, authentic is not driven by an insatiable need to search for true breakthroughs, but, on the contrary, by the desire for their leveling. In this day and age, if something seems unusual, it becomes old and uninteresting at express speed. At the same time, successful examples of “modernization” were related to the “refreshing” of antiquity, most often associated with inventiveness, and even with a virtuoso interpretive gesture.