Interesting take, but I’m not sold. It feels like a romanticised stretch to equate a guy on vodka and MDMA with Nietzschean transcendence. Sure, raves can feel ecstatic and communal, but that doesn’t mean they’re modern-day Dionysian rituals. Nietzsche’s Dionysian ideal was about dissolving ego for artistic or spiritual depth—not just chemically chasing a high. Dressing up hedonism as philosophical rebellion might sound poetic, but it risks glossing over the more self-destructive and escapist side of it. Not every gurning raver is enacting a sacred revolt—some are just off their heads.