The Growing Desert: Ozempic, Mounjaro, and the likes

"The desert grows: woe to him who conceals deserts!"                 FN, Thus Spoke Zarathustra     

This aphorism encapsulates Nietzsche’s thought regarding the advance of nihilism in the contemporary world. The metaphor points to the growing loss of meaning in human life, manifested as the devaluation of the most sublime values. Desertification here symbolizes the inexorable progression of the "will to nothingness"—of the void. The "Last Man," of whom Zarathustra speaks, avoids anything that might cause him suffering.

The explosion in the consumption of Ozempic, Mounjaro, and similar drugs highlights a need to suppress yet another desire that brings us both delights and suffering: appetite—gluttony. It signals the advance of the "will to nothingness," expanding the landscape of the ever-growing desert—the growing desert denounced by Nietzsche, and homeland to the last man. The victory of nihilism over the fullness of a desiring life.