RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 25, 2023 at 9:24 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2023 at 9:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
As expected, you're a nihilist in the same way that I'm nubian. It's not that you think things x and y are meaningless, it's not that you fundamentally reject value judgements, even. You simply think that common understandings of meaning and common expressions of value are wrong. You're an error theorist - and in that very much a realist about error..... Welcome to the club, we're all error theorists at some point.
You are, ofc...and as we all are, very much enamored with what value and meaning you do accept..which, somehow, overcomes those objections you have to the accuracy of the ones you don't.
I could make some other predictions I'd bank on. Like when you say "I'm a nihilist" about politics what you really mean is not that government doesn't exist, that there is no meaning to government, or that the values a government prioritizes are illusory. It probably just means you don't give a bunch of shits about politics. That even though you do think there's meaning and value in politics, that you do have an idea of a better world that we ought to strive for...you're not going to bust your own balls to realize any political outcome. Me neither.
You are, ofc...and as we all are, very much enamored with what value and meaning you do accept..which, somehow, overcomes those objections you have to the accuracy of the ones you don't.
I could make some other predictions I'd bank on. Like when you say "I'm a nihilist" about politics what you really mean is not that government doesn't exist, that there is no meaning to government, or that the values a government prioritizes are illusory. It probably just means you don't give a bunch of shits about politics. That even though you do think there's meaning and value in politics, that you do have an idea of a better world that we ought to strive for...you're not going to bust your own balls to realize any political outcome. Me neither.
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