nihilism is the same empty placeholder as utilitarianism, there is no 'value'. but it's not like it matters.

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It would be nice if people understood it beyond "le nothing matters" for a change.

Nihilism is correct, but I wish it wasn't. I wish I could believe in God

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so obvious and necessary it makes humans look even more retarded for taking so long to produce a schopenhauer and a nietzsche

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differnet philosophical perspectives correlate to different perspectives, some of which are cultural (relative) and some of which are developmental (absolute (all humans go through the same stages in the same order)).

Nihilism is a branch of philosophy based on a developmental level that only emerged on a mass scale in the 1960s, but whose seeds were sown in the mid-late 1800s, namely the level of development that corresponds with self-transcendence.

What does this mean?

It means that all previous philosophy was based on perspectives where the ego-self was the unconsciously-held center of experience, and nihilism and other existentialist philosophies were the first on a world scale to recognize that experience is not rooted to the personl self (the ego).

As such, I find it infinitely fascinating. It gave birth to a shape and form for our world that is capable of rooting itself in experiences that are NOT had by the self, i.e. experiences that are the exact negatives to what is experienced.

The annihilation of meaning has paved the way for so much more meaning. I think this is underappreciated.

I doubt, for example, that we would ever have had teenage mutant ninja turtles or pokemon if a vast swath of creatives hadn't had existential crises based on the thoughts of these pioneers. You sort of have no not be too attached to this world to come up with that shit.

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>nietzsche was a nihilist
Most people can't distinguish Nihilism, Absurdism and Extentialism.

Nearly all normies don't even know what nihilism is.