to live as if living didn't matter

In The Antichrist, Nietzsche refers to those who live as if living didn't matter. He says this is the message that they have received from their Evangel.

That phrase sums up the impression I had by my high school in Perth. It was as if everyone's life had been subdued, frozen, to a level of only just breathing. I saw goldfish in the restaurant pond today who looked around in a similar fashion. The lack of life up in the hills, where my parents live is quite astonishing. It's rare to see anybody outside doing anything up there, although the homes are small and tidily kept and seem far too exposed to everybody else's homes. (I have recently reflected how much being an open book is considered to be a primary Christian virtue -- thus no fences, and no switching off the computer screen whenever one should leave the room. Toilets with no doors and the prohibition against wearing clothes come next in this line of Christian logic.)

One should be an open book, in all ways, if one is to be presentable to Christians. However, if one should write a book, or read a book, then whatever the content of this book is will not interest any Christian. They only read one book -- and do not know it very well.

Lesmurdie, Kalamunda, both must be the home to so many people who desire to live as if living didn't matter.

Where I live is a different matter. I'd consider it to be one of the few places within the suburbs where people appear to live as if living mattered. It is amazing how actually caring if one lives or not, and being in an environment where other people care about it, makes everything seem more alive. There were a thousand rainbow lorikeets flying around today, and various parrots, white and black. Animal life is attracted to places where life matters, because the land is divided in such a way that promotes a feeling of wellbeing and the vibrancy of life.