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This type of depressive nihilism is just a reaction to the destruction of values, after that you can progress towards an optimistic nihilism, building your valu
by nathias 5y ago
This type of depressive nihilism is just a reaction to the destruction of values, after that you can progress towards an optimistic nihilism, building your values on truth instead of lies.
- loopz 5y agoMakes me ponder what corporate values are.
- coldtea 5y agoMoney and hypocrisy.
- pizza 5y agooptimistic nihilism
- texaslonghorn2 5y agoperhaps the corporate religion worships and values wealth. similar to the Ferengi in Star Trek.
- throwawaynumber 5y agotrying to build my values on truth makes it impossible for me to reconcile any such built values with things like liberalism, equality, egalitarianism, religious beliefs of any kind, etc. Basically pick all the dearly adhered to values of the "left" and "right" in the English speaking west and tear them up and toss them into furnace. It not a pleasant experience, especially in the culture war riven excessively online world of today, where it makes, to me, everyone who is left wing, right wing, Nazi, anarchist, liberal, egalitarian, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, [religious not ethnic] Jew, leftist, centrists, libertarian, classical liberal, conservative, BLM activists et al, proud boys et al, etc all existential foes on the grounds of fundamental moral truths. Not a troll post.
- nathias 5y agoI can reconcile parts of universalist rationalist values but not their type of spiritualist justifications, but of course trying to avoid ideology will make you opposed to ideologies ...