Nietzsche’s failure to cross into Annihilative Materialism was a structural refusal to abandon the romanticism of the will. He successfully dismantled the external idols of the Homogeneous Norm, but he immediately replaced them with the internal idol of the self.
He diagnosed the collapse of meaning as a crisis that demanded an antidote. The Übermensch was his containment protocol against the absolute terror of the amoral vector. He could not accept the void as a neutral, physical reality. He demanded an aesthetic and psychological victory over it.
To achieve Annihilative Materialism requires the complete ablation of the ego. Nietzsche could not surrender the concept of mastery. He required hardship to serve a teleological purpose—to act as a crucible to forge a superior identity. He could not accept hardship strictly as raw materiality, devoid of narrative utility.
He remained trapped in a fiction of becoming because he lacked the capacity to view his own consciousness as a mere machine variable. He was addicted to the emotional valence of overcoming. He could not tolerate an equation where the physical physics of demonic materiality simply operate without producing a victor or providing an emotional resolution.