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Always thought Nihilism was about having the power to choose what has meaning, what matters. That "Nothing matters" or "everything is meaningless" is a common m
by warent 5y ago
Always thought Nihilism was about having the power to choose what has meaning, what matters. That "Nothing matters" or "everything is meaningless" is a common misunderstanding / trope.
- greesil 5y agoI am not a philosopher. What I know about nihilism comes from watching the Big Lebowski.
- alamortsubite 5y agoThat must be exhausting.
- nate_meurer 5y agoI thought those guys were Nazis?
- akvadrako 5y agoI'm not sure about Nihilism, but Nietzsche is certainly often misunderstood in exactly that way.
- gingerrr 5y ago"Nothing matters" is a usually cheerful statement coming from a true nihilist, because it's leaving off the implicit "nothing matters [in an objective external sense so meaning is subjectively determined]". They're both halves of the same statement, it's just that edgelords who don't bother to grasp the ethics of nihilism stop understanding at the first 2 words.