I often see people criticizing Nietzsche — not so much criticize as just sigh "Well eventually you do get over it." As if this is itself an argument against his work. I don't get it. What is it exactly that you grow out of? The notion of the Overman? I suppose on its face, with the most cursory and superficial reading, you could interpret Nietzsche as the kind of railing against society only a young man could write, but is that itself a sufficient rebuke? What if young men are in fact deeply uncomfortable with their place in society? Often it isn't all men, to be sure, but a frustrated kind, a little too smart, too cocky, too energetic. Nietzsche honestly has such ADHD energy. You can't write so enthusiastically about your need to wander endlessly before you can get a good thought in and not be seen by the outside world as a man lacking ATTENTION. Attention is worship and worship attention. This is why demons in Lewis's Screwtape Letters are interested in pulling Man’s attention away from Christ with so many distractions.
It's now mainstream (and in other words — true for society) that men writ large are FRUSTRATED. The word implies impediment, abortive attempts, grasping and failing at something. The issue of course is that these articles, TED talks, endless sermonizing all fail to actually address any real solution. They believe so, but in fact are simply re-asserting that the social frame they each possess is the correct one to use. Trad values, Feminism, Christian Marxist morality, "finding purpose:" these all in some way assume a framing for the world and insist that these men would find fulfillment within it. Nietzsche of course anticipates this (you want to talk about stuck culture? How about reading retorts to arguments that haven't been made for another century.) What Nietzsche assesses, correctly I would say, is that these people all seek to sand off, if not amputate, the edges that would prevent any given man from fitting into these frames. Below the surface to these arguments is that the Frustrated Young Men can be treated in a uniform way, but Nietzsche argues that these few frustrated men are in fact all in need of assessing their own individual frame and asserting it positively and self-lovingly. In other words, what one aspect of a given system of morality will frustrate this man may not necessarily frustrate the other, but neither can embrace them wholly for different reasons.
These systems of morality are all themselves the projects of previous men, who in their own way, drunk of either god or power or vengeance, sought to forcefully shape the world into their image. In this way, then, these men who bristle and are unable to naturally fit into this mould are exhorted by Nietzsche to develop their own morality, with the hope then later of shaping the world anew.
Morality ages, decays, as it becomes increasingly unable to contain the world. This, I believe is what made Protestantism inevitable. Protestantism is an ANTICIPATION of a Church of the Literate, Rational, Self Owned. Nordic countries embracing Protestant religiosity makes sense as their stoic temperament was fertile soil to receive it. What’s more, the Puritan settlers, who needed a hard, sober faith to drive their kin into a hostile world could ONLY have been driven by a deterministic, fatal, & powerful Calvinism.
Digression aside, "people who cannot fit into the system should learn to embrace it" is not an argument worth debating: it is one worth crushing. In any case, the vast majority of people will be suited for a morality brought onto them by their leaders. Whoever has the courage to not only reject existing modes, but create a new mode, and not only that but subject the world to it, is who Nietzsche is calling for. These young men should get used to nagging opposition, as their every step away from the campfire leads not only to the beasts in the dark forest, but more powerful still, the shame, rebuke, pleading of the fearful and needy (of which you once considered yourself part!). This kind of betrayal leads some to come back ashamed, others to never leave but resent and spit venom, and others to let go, pass on, and head into that dark. Your only light is within after you leave the campfire, so stock up on the wood, kindling, and fuel that your spirit will need. It's a long journey.
After all, Alexander the Great was young too.