(July 22, 2011 at 1:51 am)FaithNoMore Wrote: I don't think it's a downward spiral, I think the human race has always been this way. You're just getting to that age that you're starting to realize all of the shit that truly happens in the world.
Very true. It wasn't until recently that I saw the world for what it really is.
(July 22, 2011 at 1:19 am)Epimethean Wrote: Letting yourself go full nihilist can be a tough row to hoe, YA. No need for utopianism, but there are good developments afoot, too.
I wouldn't dare go full nihilist. I believe in a meaning of life, that being the will to power. As for utopianism, my mind couldn't fathom a perfect society.
-Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man. -> Friedrich Nietzsche