My nihilist take of the day: Maybe sometimes its just for the best to do nothing, you can not fix all of the worlds issues yourself after all. Maybe spend your attention on something less important no one really cares about.
Rate your nihilism at a scale X out of 10. For me it is perhaps a 6
If I look around me and continue to find everyone else just complaining and arguing than doing something about their problems, then why the fuck should I be the one to do it for them?
I mean yes, I’ve been having scenarios in my mind about how glorious it’d be to assassinate Trump, Musk, Vance and whoever I can get my hands on who are Republican and messing with power.
But then a couple striking things came to my mind. If I did that, throwing everything and everyone away in my life to accomplish a pretty slim chance in achieving such a goal, what are the odds the American people will later vote in someone just as bad if not worse than Trump? Then my valiant effort would’ve been in vain. Would it have been worth it?
Then the other thought is, people are just going to go back to being shitty among themselves and infect that to everyone else near them so it wouldn’t have fucking mattered anyways. I would’ve only made things feel good for the moment and for a little while until the dust all clears and things will be back to “normal” soon enough.
Because then I’d also realize, that for real change to happen, needs to be a grand collaborative effort and we aren’t there yet and probably may not be there ever. Sure, I’ve disposed of one of those targets, but there’s still a deal of corrupt wealthy assholes around. What I’d do isn’t going to incite people to do the same, they’re just going to sink back into their armchairs and give a big sigh of relief that someone else did something they wish they could do.
And at that point, yeah I’d rather care now about shit that don’t matter to people but matters to me because of those few facts.
Who cares how nihilistic I am? I’ll be dead eventually and so will you.
Life is waiting in line at the bank. You can’t fight it. You can’t change anything. You can’t get out of line. You just have to wait until it’s over.
Welp, i mist be winning, i haven’t wailited inline at the Bank for 30 years.
Aside from boomer pensioners, like my mother, who even goes into a bank?
If we’re not going to go hard on saving the world, killing billionaires, going vegan, switching all transport to trains/barges/airships, you’re actively committing suicide.
Don’t be a sanctimonious piece of shit about it. Smoke em while you got em. Do that line of fent, fuck that questionable person-how long is that sti really gonna matter for, anyway?
Nihilism is one of those concepts I can never remember a definition of, so I end up having to look it up every few years.
Recently I’ve been called nihilistic for my opinion that bringing children into this world is irresponsible, because they will be likely to experience suffering, without an opportunity to first consent to being born. If nihilism is defined by an absence of moral values or a lack of caring, I don’t see how it would apply to my stated position. I choose not to have children precisely because I care, and couldn’t justify taking the chance that my child wouldn’t want to exist.I’m probably misunderstanding the concept, but so far I haven’t been interested enough in it to do a deep dive and read Nietzsche or whatever.
If anything, your position is in opposition to nihilism.
There are different kinds of nihilism. Your position is in contradiction with the “purest” form. The absence of an objective value in anything and everything. Your position clearly values personal consent.
There are other kind of nihilism, like political nihilism, might not be in conflict with your position. On the other hand, existential nihilism, the belief that there is no inherent meaning/value in life, might seem to align with your position but I think it is difficult to argue in favor of consent, even to being alive, while believing that life is inherently meaningless. I mean, why does the consent of a meaningless being matter to anyone? Of course, you could take an adsurdism position to it but then I would argue that calling you nihilistic would be a mischaracterization.
Sounds like antinatalism. Check out David Benetar’s Better Never to Have Been if haven’t already and his assymytrical argument
If truly nothing matters, meaning can be created and the benefit of caring is only to yourself.
1d8+2 on any day. Today is probably a 3ish (assuming 10 is very nihlistic, and 1, not at all)
I lean more towards absurdism than nihilism but lately it’s easily 8/10
1d5+5 out of 10 on any given day
There’s something called ”positive nihilism“ that I feel works super well for me to keep the doom and gloom at bay. Like if nothing matters - you’re free. If it doesn’t matter what you do, then do whatever makes you feel good! It doesn’t matter to go to that event because you’ll die at some point anyway? Well then go to an event that you want to go to because you’ll feel good, or don’t! So to answer the question haha, maybe like a 4/10
I believe this is the Absurdist take
I’m nihilistic in this way. I didn’t know this is a thing, thanks for sharing! :D Have a great day!
That sounds similar to epicureanism: your goal in life is to experience pleasure, but it isn’t just straight hedonism. For example life is more pleasurable when you are healthy, so you have to eat well and exercise to maintain your pursuit of pleasure.
I’d say 8/10 and it’s quite freeing.
My nihilism level might be on a solid 8 if I had to guess. Im too realistic and too critical to keep people around me for 75% of the time. The 25% that stuck around has been around for idk 28 years now?
We believe in nothing, OP. Nothing!
For me, I mainly just focus on enjoying the limited time I have without really caring what happens in the world. World going to shit? Oh well, I still have my hobbies I can do instead of worrying about that.
Don’t really have a number for your scale as I don’t even know if you could call this nihilism.
I would argue this ideology falls under absurdism rather than nihilism.
Indifference ?
I’d say it’s at about a 4. In the grand scheme I can do nothing. But at the local level, I can affect all sorts of change for the better. I can organize, so as long as I do that then nothing is lost
