Another fantastic post. You have developed a very effective sharpness for properly displaying the image and feelings of the modern man. At a glance, it feels humorous- but then quickly gets depressing.
I lived my 20s entrenched in the kind of snooty nihilism you describe. You've captured it well.
I think the point (maybe accidentally) implied by this post is that people need to understand that their lives have purpose. After that, nihilism is impossible
All lives do have purpose, and maybe that’s a “lame” way to think based on pop-culture standards, but so what? I, too, engaged in this sort of “whatever” thinking but I eventually grew out of it when I realized it was a dead-end personally, intellectually, and spiritually. At some point you just wanted to feel like a real human being again.
In my case, mid-aughts hipsterism made me realize that the ironic detachment was the inauthentic lose and the supposedly lame, basic normal people they decried were far more authentic.
I don’t think anyone still breathing is truly a nihilist. They just haven’t realized it yet. So there’s still hope.
Another fantastic post. You have developed a very effective sharpness for properly displaying the image and feelings of the modern man. At a glance, it feels humorous- but then quickly gets depressing.
I lived my 20s entrenched in the kind of snooty nihilism you describe. You've captured it well.
I think the point (maybe accidentally) implied by this post is that people need to understand that their lives have purpose. After that, nihilism is impossible
All lives do have purpose, and maybe that’s a “lame” way to think based on pop-culture standards, but so what? I, too, engaged in this sort of “whatever” thinking but I eventually grew out of it when I realized it was a dead-end personally, intellectually, and spiritually. At some point you just wanted to feel like a real human being again.
In my case, mid-aughts hipsterism made me realize that the ironic detachment was the inauthentic lose and the supposedly lame, basic normal people they decried were far more authentic.
I don’t think anyone still breathing is truly a nihilist. They just haven’t realized it yet. So there’s still hope.