A redemption from transitoriness that consists of an endless repetition is no redemption at all. An eternity of the same old crap is still crap. It is actually worse than transient crap. It is Crap Eternalized, nihilism on stilts.
Pious Nietzscheans will be shocked at my irreverence. But wasn't it his irreverence that attracted their adolescent selves to him in the first place?
Nietzsche would restore the 'weight' to the world that the now absent God had supplied. But his Eternal Recurrence is a makeshift not up to the task.
Fulminate as he does against old Plato, he himself is a Platonist: he takes the world's impermanence to argue its unreality and unimportance. Which is why he posits Eternal Recurrence. From within Becoming he would redeem Becoming. But he should have seen that among the consequences of the death of God is not only the death of truth, but also the death of redemption.
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