Sixty second philosophy: nihilism

Today, we're tackling the stages of nihilism.

Nihilism seems to be in the air this week! I literally yelled into an abyss the other day so I was feeling it too.

I adapted this from a text post I did. Everyone learns differently, so I thought it might be nice to have a video version of it.

I fall into nihilism sometimes. I'm not a perfect absurdist, but I think I do a pretty damn good job of it most of the time.

The important part is not staying in nihilism for too long. You remember what Nietzsche said about staring into the abyss?

It states back. Not in a kinky way, not at first, at least. When you first come into nihilism, you are confronting the realization that there is no value or meaning. You can't unlearn this. It can be scary. No wonder people have a hard time overcoming it.

The measure of genuine strength of individuality is your ability to affirm life - to say yes in the face of nihilism.

To stay out of nihilism and in the realm of existentialism or absurdism takes effort.

It's like swimming to keep your head above water. Sometimes you find yourself sinking back down a bit, maybe almost drowning. This is the most important time for you to identify what's going on and overcome it once more.

It's not easy, I know. If it were, we'd have way more existentialists and absurdists around. Unfortunately, people have a really hard time operating under the condition of meaninglessness, so it's no wonder they can't overcome nihilism.

Yesterday I found out that one of my old professors passed away. Dr. Deborah Cook. She studied with Foucault and Derrida, and was an Adorno scholar.

She taught me existentialism, Sartre, Nietzsche, Hegel. She laughed at my hilarious Nietzsche shirt. We didn't see eye to eye, but I respected her.

It seems fitting that I found out about her passing just as I finished recording my nihilism video. I laughed at the absurdity of the circumstances. Existence truly is absurd.

[Littlelioton]

Technically shes right, however it is a temporary platform that is both the start and the absolute finish. Nothing matters, find meaning in the suffering, death is waiting regardless what i do. And so forth. You both leap through the plethora of philosophy’s only to end up back at nihilism. Tldr; nihilism is a vicious cycle of gaslighting yourself that you’re not in fact a nihilist but searching. Only to be circling back.
Nihilistic innit?

[Wile.E.C]

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. -C.S Lewis

[Jason-os]

Cheer~~the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.(I just got quite an interesting channel I had today and still learning contents by heart)😊

[mbprdctns]

u just explained how u can use it in the end

[suchawow]

The only issue is this can lead to self-absorbtion making you part of the problem with a lot of the negative aspects of the world.

[Dino_Medici]

Deriving joy from meaninglessness is the apex of 20th century goofy thought lmao

[imnotbilly]

Wow! A Beautiful Mind behind a beautiful face

[reluctanthorse]

Searching for Something That Doesn’t Exist——-/MEANING! or Albeit GOd!