The tendency of the modern individual to feel he has been arbitrarily thrown and abandoned into an absurd world is the direct result of lacking what Nietzsche called a “historical sense.” Of having no conscious connection to the past, and therefore failing to dig one’s roots from the strata of history. In an early essay titled “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life,” Nietzsche contrasted “the condition of a people which has lost faith in its ancient history and has fallen into a restless and constant search for novelty after novelty” with the individual who has cultivated a historical sense and attained “the sense of wellbeing of a tree for its roots, the happiness to know one’s self in a manner not entirely arbitrary and accidental, but as someone who has grown out of a past, as an heir, flower, and fruit.”