Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
When Nietszsche declared god dead it was a metaphore for the comming end of an era, he never believed in a god, it's the practise of worship that he declared dead. Such is the same here but Merkel deserves no credit for it she's an opportunist taking a populist stand for damage control.
so.. basically we say the same thing again only you have to add a (moral) judgment to the matter :P and cmon... declaring the death of ideas and such, everyone does it nowadays. art is dead, the artist is dead blablabla... its neither shocking nor innovating.