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The danger of exaggerating our capacity for self-initiated action and so exaggerating a burden of responsibility is, it turns out, as great as the danger of throwing up our hands and in a self-undermining way bemoaning the all pervasive power of fate and the weakness or epiphenomenal status of consciousness and subjectivity itself. Perhaps the best one can say is that Nietzsche is quite good at conveying to us the sense that this, this complicated and near paradoxical situation, is what could more properly be said to be our modern fate.