Subjectivity - Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

Our world today is different from the world in 1800. Technology has been only a part of that change, A bigger change has come from the change in how we view ourselves. We take for granted today the idea that we are all individuals, but that wasn't always the belief. That view changed with the philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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[@obrotherwhereartliam]

Although Nietzsche considered nationalists as following a placebo religion and thought these people were in essence, avoiding dealing with their own subjectivity. Isn't there something necessarily deeply subjectivist and individualistic about it as well? That nationalists will pursue their own interests on paper as a "collective" (usually a small/large ethnic or language groups) yet many are pursuing their own individual interests, however, since their desires are usually similar as those in the collective, it is not entirely their own subjective willing. So, it could be said that Nietzsche recognizes at bottom that the collective willing is impelled by a subjective core that is attempting to bypass itself.

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I understand what you mean, and you have a point. Nietzsche would take the position that anyone following any crowd is sacrificing one's power and individuality. I take a more nuanced view, but say that nationalist movements are composed of people taking a binary view of Us-versus-Them that deprives others of individuality, and ultimately deprives the nationalist of their own individuality.