“According to Nietzsche and Emmerson, modernity has fallen out of rhythm with life. It was out of tune with the basic impulses that that once animated human existence. Animals naturally love to play, to race, to climb – to expand energy and relish power. But in our efforts to become civilised and pious, Nietzsche maintained, we moderns had managed to kill or cage the animal within us. With the help of Christianity and capitalism, human animals had been allowed to go soft.”

John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche