#nihilism — Public Fediverse posts

#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawings #art #nihilism #philosophy #cosmichorror #lovecraftian

If you look at the stars, you'll see Ishtar.

#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawings #art #nihilism #philosophy #cosmichorror #lovecraftian

If you look at the stars, you'll see Ishtar.

#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawings #art #nihilism #philosophy #cosmichorror #lovecraftian

If you look at the stars, you'll see Ishtar.

#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawings #art #nihilism #philosophy #cosmichorror #lovecraftian

If you look at the stars, you'll see Ishtar.

#ArsRitualisTemplii #digitaldrawings #art #nihilism #philosophy #cosmichorror #lovecraftian

If you look at the stars, you'll see Ishtar.

@DoomsdaysCW The Republicans and the Conservatives have also weaponised stupidity; with some help from the Democrats and Labour. The result is the total shit storm which the people of both Nations now have to try and survive. And who would have thought, never again? #TheRiseOfTheUltras #MobRule #DeathCamps #NeoNazis #FascistCults #DemocracyAbused #Nihilism #EcocideEmpires #Stupidity #NeverAgain #TheFederation #RepublicSovereignty

@DoomsdaysCW The Republicans and the Conservatives have also weaponised stupidity; with some help from the Democrats and Labour. The result is the total shit storm which the people of both Nations now have to try and survive. And who would have thought, never again? #TheRiseOfTheUltras #MobRule #DeathCamps #NeoNazis #FascistCults #DemocracyAbused #Nihilism #EcocideEmpires #Stupidity #NeverAgain #TheFederation #RepublicSovereignty

@DoomsdaysCW The Republicans and the Conservatives have also weaponised stupidity; with some help from the Democrats and Labour. The result is the total shit storm which the people of both Nations now have to try and survive. And who would have thought, never again? #TheRiseOfTheUltras #MobRule #DeathCamps #NeoNazis #FascistCults #DemocracyAbused #Nihilism #EcocideEmpires #Stupidity #NeverAgain #TheFederation #RepublicSovereignty

@DoomsdaysCW The Republicans and the Conservatives have also weaponised stupidity; with some help from the Democrats and Labour. The result is the total shit storm which the people of both Nations now have to try and survive. And who would have thought, never again? #TheRiseOfTheUltras #MobRule #DeathCamps #NeoNazis #FascistCults #DemocracyAbused #Nihilism #EcocideEmpires #Stupidity #NeverAgain #TheFederation #RepublicSovereignty

@DoomsdaysCW The Republicans and the Conservatives have also weaponised stupidity; with some help from the Democrats and Labour. The result is the total shit storm which the people of both Nations now have to try and survive. And who would have thought, never again? #TheRiseOfTheUltras #MobRule #DeathCamps #NeoNazis #FascistCults #DemocracyAbused #Nihilism #EcocideEmpires #Stupidity #NeverAgain #TheFederation #RepublicSovereignty

‘A Partnership of Convenience: Why China Isn’t Intervening On Iran’s Behalf
The intense U.S. bombing of Iran reveals the limits of Beijing’s relationship with Tehran and the pragmatism of China’s Middle Eastern strategy’ https://thediplomat.com/2026/03/a-partnership-of-convenience-why-china-isnt-intervening-on-irans-behalf/

Can China and Europe etc. afford to let Trump’s MAGA cult take economic and military control of the Arab Nations? The liars tool of using anti-Zionist antisemitism as a cover for genocidal conquest and an energy hegemony is wearing thin. All those living in Palestine before its colonial take over and some who fought for the allies have a far older Semitic bloodline is proven! With a considerably weakened interest in the energy markets, its military and economic power is also relegated, so no it cannot afford to do so! Trump’s Russian roulette is loaded with a nuclear Armageddon. #RussianRoulette #Armaggedon #WW3 #Hormuz #Philosophy #Nihilism #FascistDeathCults
#TheFoundation #TheFederation

@RupertReynolds

If you make these kinds of choices based on "what someone says", you're doing it wrong. No one is suggesting that.

I am (slowly) moving from Debian to Devuan for all the obvious and well-documented problems with systemd. No need to recite that stuff in detail.

Observing that Ubuntu is going all-in on autoslop, and being able to connect the dots and project into the future, moving from Ubuntu to literally anything else (that isn't on the same problematic path) is also pretty darn obvious.

But throwing up a nihilist hypothetical strawman to try to convince others it's not worth trying to fix problems? That is GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE territory. Plonk.

#plonk #nihilism #nihilist #futile #GiveUp #strawman #problem #FixThings #DontGiveUp

I'm struggling with intense feelings of #nihilism tonight. I dare not call it #depression; I don't feel worthless, I feel like everything is worthless and we are all specks of dust floating around in an uncaring universe. I am scared to die, but even more scared to live. If you see this, please #pray or send some encouraging #thoughts my way. #prettyplease #help #mentalhealth

In this Substack, I reveal the sleight of hand psychologists use to domesticate ideas from philosophy and other disciplines by critiquing an essay on nihilism and Anhedonia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/nihilism-is-not-a-symptom?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Nihilism #ExistentialNihilism #PsychologyCritique #Anhedonia #Metaethics #LanguageInsufficiency #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife #SemanticDrift #LanguageInsufficiency #PsychologyCritique #blog #podcast #essay #reading #writing #pathology

In this Substack, I reveal the sleight of hand psychologists use to domesticate ideas from philosophy and other disciplines by critiquing an essay on nihilism and Anhedonia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/nihilism-is-not-a-symptom?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Nihilism #ExistentialNihilism #PsychologyCritique #Anhedonia #Metaethics #LanguageInsufficiency #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife #SemanticDrift #LanguageInsufficiency #PsychologyCritique #blog #podcast #essay #reading #writing #pathology

In this Substack, I reveal the sleight of hand psychologists use to domesticate ideas from philosophy and other disciplines by critiquing an essay on nihilism and Anhedonia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/nihilism-is-not-a-symptom?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Nihilism #ExistentialNihilism #PsychologyCritique #Anhedonia #Metaethics #LanguageInsufficiency #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife #SemanticDrift #LanguageInsufficiency #PsychologyCritique #blog #podcast #essay #reading #writing #pathology

In this Substack, I reveal the sleight of hand psychologists use to domesticate ideas from philosophy and other disciplines by critiquing an essay on nihilism and Anhedonia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/nihilism-is-not-a-symptom?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Nihilism #ExistentialNihilism #PsychologyCritique #Anhedonia #Metaethics #LanguageInsufficiency #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife #SemanticDrift #LanguageInsufficiency #PsychologyCritique #blog #podcast #essay #reading #writing #pathology

In this Substack, I reveal the sleight of hand psychologists use to domesticate ideas from philosophy and other disciplines by critiquing an essay on nihilism and Anhedonia.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/nihilism-is-not-a-symptom?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Nihilism #ExistentialNihilism #PsychologyCritique #Anhedonia #Metaethics #LanguageInsufficiency #Philosophy #MeaningOfLife #SemanticDrift #LanguageInsufficiency #PsychologyCritique #blog #podcast #essay #reading #writing #pathology

It is possible that #WW3 won’t release us from our memorials to the victims of fascists nihilistic cults. It shouldn’t, but our sordid and diabolical world history is manufacturing new ones every day, so it is highly likely it will end us! #Revolution #WorldSaving #EcocideEmpires #Ideas #TheFederation #EthicallySustainable #nihilism #philosophy #NewWorlds #OtherWorlds #Rebirth #Oblivion #Choices

It’s not enough that just one person is an idiot
..the whole system must be idiotic. Bourgeois ideology is obsessed with the strongman, for better or for worse. If Hitler had been thrown out of the window in 1925, there would have been no German fascism. As daft as that sounds, it’s also a widespread belief, mainly because of that Jesus story.
Historical materialism, and even more so Foucault’s structuralism, show that social conditions lead to outcomes. This can be accelerated by charismatic figures, but never triggered. Similarly, the current decline of Western hegemony is in no way attributable to Trump. Nor has it ever been. And sometimes I believe that Trump knows this. That he is, by design, the angel of the Apocalypse. Like the Judas of the Gospel of Judas, who sacrifices himself to fulfil the prophecy. He wouldn't be the first to see nihilism as the way out.

https://word.undead-network.de/2026/04/14/es-reicht-ja-nicht-wenn-einer-idiotisch-ist/
#Foucault #materialism #Materialismus #nihilism #nihilismus #philosophy #prophet #struckturalism #trump #us

Everyone thought George W Bush and his cabal of misfits and ideologues were idiots. There is always something, or someone, worse:

"Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, has asked the American people to pray “every day, on bended knee” for a military victory in the Middle East “in the name of Jesus Christ.””
#religion #Trumpism #Iran #Easter #nihilism #militarism #ethics #morality #evil #idiots
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/world/middleeast/pope-iran-war.html

More from inside the #TrumpVirus sanitarium...

Sudden change of 'heart'/'mind' by #MAGAMike & the #GQP #cult of #nihilism & denial:

> Mike Johnson caves on Senate’s DHS deal, paving way to end shutdown

https://www.ms.now/news/mike-johnson-caves-senate-dhs-shutdown

Desperation in a wounded animal? Exhausting all evil/inept options until ONLY one sane option remains?

This on the eve when Sir is about to make a Big Announcement, about his fake not- #war in #Iran

More distraction from the #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #WordSalad

From the Existential Insurrection to the Social Revolution – Polykarpos Georgiadis
https://resistra.espivblogs.net/2013/11/polykarpos-georgiadis/

"We don’t have to wait for the revolution to begin. It has already started for centuries. And it is here. And it will complete its work (destruction and creation) only if it succeeds in establishing Anarchist Communism on the ruins of the class/hierarchical society (the society of total individualism and not its phony caricature), when the society of individuals is replaced by the society of total free personalities. Society and individuals are de-alienated simultaneously and not separately. They are emancipated with the help of each other."

#anarchism #nihilism #counterattack #proletariat #theory

#DoIt #live #nihilism

“In other words, the #bomber may have been inspired by the #memes of #chaos, #nihilism, and wanton #destruction he saw online, even if he didn’t fully understand their origin or significance.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Teenagers Are Pushing Himmler’...

🆘 U.S. officials have discarded the idea of legal constraints altogether.

The day after the United States kidnapped Maduro and his wife in Venezuela,
the senior Trump aide #Stephen #Miller explained the administration’s thinking in an interview with the CNN host Jake Tapper.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength,
that is governed by force,
that is governed by power,”
Miller said.

“These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Neither Miller nor anyone else in the administration offered any real legal justification for launching a military assault on Venezuela
—an operation that killed at least 75 people.

There has been no legal justification, either,
for the plan Trump announced on social media to seize “between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels” of Venezuelan oil.

Instead, the State Department shared an image of the U.S. president emblazoned with the words
“This is OUR Hemisphere,”

and Trump styled himself in a Truth Social post as the
“Acting President of Venezuela.”

Now, the administration has begun to turn its sights on #Greenland.

A White House statement issued days after the capture of Maduro
claims that the United States
“needs” Greenland

and that acquiring the territory is a “national security priority.”

👉What is so troubling about the Trump administration’s words and actions is not just that the administration is breaking the law.

-- And it is:
⚠️the intervention in Venezuelaclearly violates the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force.

But more than that,

❌ U.S. officials have discarded the idea of legal constraints altogether.

The only constraint, Trump said in an interview with The New York Times last week,
is his “own morality.”

There is no real argument to defend the government’s behavior.

No pretense.
No attempt to persuade.

When a policy is announced in an online post,
without explanation or justification,
one has the unsettling sense that its makers see no need to bother cloaking it with a lie.

A system of #rules can survive some hypocrisy,
but #nihilism will bring it down.

At the same time,
the Trump administration is acting as though the threat or use of force alone can grant it legal entitlements.

#Gunboat #diplomacy, roundly renounced when war was outlawed,
has returned.

The United States is using oil blockades, coercive seizures, and military threats
to extract political and economic concessions from other countries.

This is an attempt to assert that power alone creates rights, regardless of reason.

🔥A world in which the powerful no longer feel the need to justify themselves is not merely unjust.
-- It is barbaric:

Operations to kill, steal, and destroy are severed from any claim of right.

That world does not have a legal order at all.

It has only force,
guided by one man’s whims.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-without-rules

Hey folks :FediverseSymbol:

We're sorry that so many of you are also struggling in different ways 🥺😔

We don't imagine there's anything we can do or so that will help, but we watched this video yesterday about:

Perseverance in the Face of Futility

The creator, Lady of the Library, struggles with mental health herself and talks openly about this at a high-level in the video.

It may not help everybody, but we hope that maybe it might help somebody :MentalHealthFlagHeart:

#MentalHealth #absurdism #nihilism #existentialism #TheHardestThingInThisWorldIsToLiveInIt

FBI’s New “Nihilism” Label Explained

#Nihilism #FBI #Efilism

The FBI now uses the term “nihilistic #violent #extremism” to describe crimes aimed at chaos and collapse—but does that have anything to do with #philosophical nihilism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEiAfbtIvs

Dogmatiikan professori Olli-Pekka Vainio kirjoittaa Areiopagilla pessimismistä, https://www.areiopagi.fi/2025/10/miksi-pessimismi-on-viisas-kaunis-ja-onnellisuutta-lisaava-elamanfilosofia/

Väärinkäsitysten oikomisen ja joidenkin määrittelyjen kautta päädytään siihen, että "pessimismi onkin mitä hienoin, fiksuin ja kaunein elämänfilosofia, joka ei johda ankeaan synkistelyyn, vaan hyvyyden, kauneuden ja totuuden varjelemiseen". Maltillisen pessimistisen asenteen omaksumiseen löytyy niin käytännöllisiä, poliittisia, psykologisia, episteemisiä kuin esteettisiäkin perusteita. Optimismi pikemmin osoittautuu ongelmaksi.

#pessimismi #pessimism #optimismi #optimism #nihilism #hope #toivo #life #filosofia #philosophy #areiopagi #stubb #fatalism #skepticism #despair #epatoivo #positive

#meme #existence #nihilism #pessimism

#Nāgārjuna's #Madhyamaka #philosophy articulates #śūnyatā (#emptiness) and the two truths, dismantling the notion of intrinsic essence and affirming the interdependent, provisional nature of all phenomena. This insight avoids both #nihilism and #essentialism, shaping #Mahāyāna and #Zen thought. In this post, I summed up the key aspects of this profound teaching and its implications for #Buddhist practice:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-06-15-sunyata_and_two_truths/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

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#mastoart #art #artwork #drawing #nihilism #nihilist #skeletons #skeletonart #darkart #funnyart #relatable #memes

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The three worst presidents in US history (Herbert Hoover, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump) were all hailed for their business background and skills. Time to retire the trope that businessmen know anything about running nation states.
#economics #depression #recession #collapse #macroeconomics #USpolitics #leadership #vandals #nihilism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-reason-advisers/

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THE END - A short story

A handful of decrepit old men decide to enslave the world in #tyranny and suffering.

A few more join them in hopes of getting a piece of the action.

Many more carry out their orders, telling themselves they aren't responsible for their actions, hoping to be slayed last.

The rest sigh and stare at their feet, waiting to be slaughtered.

The End

#politics #nihilism #fatalism #pacifism #apathy #civicduty #democracy #notmyproblem

update: now a thread! 🧵 1/?

philosophers are like a buffet - take what's useful, leave what's not

Marx, so much to say here:
- he saw the chains clearly but didn't realize how many would learn to love their shackles
- understood class consciousness but couldn't predict how effectively spectacle would fragment it
- mapped capital's structure perfectly but missed how it would mutate to survive

Camus gets it - life's absurd, might as well embrace it and find joy in the revolt

Zizek's fun but needs *sniff* to get to the fucking point *sniff* faster *sniff*

Nietzsche understood the death of god but his übermensch concept got hijacked by fascist dipshits who couldn't read. and don't even get me started on either: the gross misreading of what he actually believed about nihilism and the antisemitic shit added after death

Stirner needed to learn to shitpost - imagine writing a whole book about rejecting social constructs and then getting mad when people don't take your social construct (egoism) seriously enough

LaVey got the hedonism right but was too caught up in Randian bullshit to see the bigger picture

Spinoza knew what was up with determinism but needed to loosen his collar a bit

Bataille understood the connection between sex, death, and the sacred - my kind of freak

Deleuze got that desire is revolutionary but wrote like he was being paid by the syllable

Rawls is too optimistic about human nature but his veil of ignorance is a useful thought experiment

Foucault nailed power dynamics but missed some practical applications

Sartre had good ideas but was kind of a dick about them

Butler understood gender as performance but academia made it too complex for the masses who needed to hear it

but honestly? give me Diogenes any day - that's praxis you can use... nothing says 'fuck your system' like jerking off in public and living in a barrel

or maybe i'm just a silly chaos witch who likes to fuck with people's expectations. could be both. probably is both.

#BarrelLife #IntellectualShitposting #philosophy #praxis #theory #PhilosophyMemes #existentialism #nihilism #marxism #absurdism #HedonistLife #DoWhatThouWilt

‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a rightwing movement strives to end US democracy

There is a “real and very, very present” threat to the US from a shadowy collection of rightwing leaders,
a new book on the movement behind Donald Trump warns,
with the aim being
“an end to pluralistic democracy”.

#Katherine #Stewart, a journalist who specializes in the religious right, spent years researching the money and influence that has aided and encouraged tens of millions of Americans in their worship at the throne of Trump.

The result is
"Money, Lies and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy",
which sees Stewart explore the “antidemocratic movement”
– an unholy mix of Christian nationalists, billionaire oligarchs and conservative ideologues who have seized control of the Republican party,
and aim to fundamentally change the US.

“#Money is a huge part of the story,
meaning that huge concentrations of wealth have destabilized the political system.

Second, #lies, or conscious disinformation, is a huge feature of this movement.

And third #God, because the most important ideological framework for the largest part of this movement is Christian nationalism,” Stewart said.

In the book, Stewart details how Republicans have been held hostage by the antidemocratic movement,
something that “came together long before Donald Trump descended on a golden escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for president”.

Stewart – whose previous two books,
"The Good News Club" and
"The Power Worshippers",
focused on the impact of the Christian right and religious nationalism in the US
– spent years traveling to an array of rightwing conferences,
from Christian nationalist events to
”Make America great again” fests and sober thinktank talks,
and found many similarities.

The eclectic groups may not seem to have much in common, but their aim is the same:
bringing an end to democracy in the US as we know it.

Their method of achieving that is the same too.
“The overwhelming message, from speaker after speaker, was that ‘Trump needs to be allowed to enact his agenda, and you need to get behind him,’” Stewart said.

Though there is an intriguing collection of individuals and organizations in the movement,
Stewart categorizes its members as #Christian #nationalists
– who believe, wrongly, that America was founded as a Christian nation and must be governed as such
– and the #super-#rich, who are seeking to secure their own wealth at the expense of others.

“Much of the energy of the movement, too, comes from below,
from the anger and resentment that characterizes life among those who perceive, more or less accurately, that they are falling behind,” Stewart writes.

“The best label I can find for the phenomenon
– and I do not pretend it is a fully satisfactory label
– is ‘#reactionary #nihilism’.
It is reactionary in the sense that it expresses itself as mortal opposition to a perceived catastrophic change in the political order;
it is nihilistic because its deepest premise is that the actual world is devoid of value,
impervious to reason, and governable only through brutal acts of will.

It stands for a kind of unraveling of the American political mind
– a madness that now afflicts one side of nearly every political debate.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/katherine-stewart-money-lies-god-book-christian-nationlism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

.... The reader will easily understand why this current of ideas has been called “#nihilism.” We mean by this that the partisans of that ideology admit nothing (nihil) of that which was natural and sacred for others (family, society, religion, art, traditions, etc ... ) To the question that one posed to such a man: — what do you accept, what do you approve of all that is around you and claims to have the right or even the obligation to exert over you some influence? — The man responded: nothing — “#nihil.” He was thus a “#nihilist.” ....