Nihilism and the Red Pill

A quick-and-dirty explanation of Nihilism, the most misunderstood of Philosophies. The Red Pill is one version of it. Preparation for my attack on Atheistkult.

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[aeroegnr]

Isn't this, in some way, redefining the traditional meaning of Nihilism? I get how you are tearing apart the faults of people that have claimed to be nihilists. Perhaps I don't fully understand Nihilism myself, as I haven't studied it in particular because the only people I knew that claimed to support Nihilists were of the 2nd type, or the extremely annoying ones (who still had an agenda to push).

Is there a better word for it? In much the same way, "anarchist" was hijacked by socialists.

[Aurini]

@aeroegnr I think 'beliefs' are more important than labels.

Labels should serve us; not an eternal narcissistic search fo 'authenticity'.

[MirageScience]

the red pill didn't originate from the Matrix, I can't tell if you know this so I suppose I will just go ahead and tell you that the red pill alludes the the acult. Same with going down the rabbit hole.

[Aurini]

@MirageScience Fascinating. Do you have any more information on the topic? I suppose I could google, but I suspect the cultural impact of The Matrix + manosphere bloggers would submerge any resutls from before then.

[CeltoSaxonKnight]

You make nihilism sound like an ultra-individualist doctrine of personal transformation. Like extreme Zen but with congratulatory self-satisfaction allowed. Certainly elitist & yet doomed to make not its mark unless 'monsters' grow out from it - for change only comes through the masses (be they willing participants or not!) Yet gods are seldom born of man thus I think the tried & tested paths of tradition are more appealing, although I am open to the coercion of success, if sceptical of it.

[Aurini]

@CeltoSaxonKnight I strongly support tradition for most people - and I'm a fan of it myself. In fact, I'd say that it even results in a stronger argument for tradition because most traditions are tried, tested, and true - an open examination will come to support them.

[Hoobifta]

What the hell is this framework? It's a shitty philosophy, goooooodbye!

[Hoobifta]

If epicureanism makes you a pathetic emo, if solipsism is painless, if Tyler Durden can't be understood, more accurately, if everything you were told is false, is it nihilism that's a base and not in itself a program? Nihilism is an extremist movement, but meaning is the use for a meaningless existence, sense when Epicureanism sounds crazy and scary, but nihilism used to be scary, o yes Hitler was a nihilist, if you claim he's not he'll wail to you that he's a nihilist, what can you believe? Eh!

[ShwangShwing]

So now I realize that I've been a nihilist for a long time.

[ThePrinceOfMoose]

@Aurini Dude, that is probably one of the most intelligent statements I have heard on this site.

The video is a good introduction to doing more research on Nilhism.

[Fetchdafish]

Thus Spake Zarathustra

[ParagonProtege]

Hey @Aurini

About the Physics analogy (circa 6:00), you say there aren't absolute velocities or frames of reference.

This is true, but misleading. Special Relativity provides a replacement objective measure via the Lorentz transformation. From all frames of reference, the quantity √(t^2 - x^2 - y^2 - z^2) is invariant. Time dilation and length contraction do occur, but in precise and calculable ways. So reality isn't inherently subjective, but objective in a non-intuitive, non-Newtonian way.