Michael Phillips

Now me and the homies can construct meaning as we see fit, which is more like the existentialist response. We're going to create meaning where maybe there wasn't natural meaning in this like old school platonic or Christian sense.

Yeah, I mean, I think there's the sense in which it is the kind of weird Jordan Peterson-y, alt-right philosophy version of nihilism, which just means, like, people that think the dominance of the West is bad. And it also reeks a little bit of, like, Big Lebowski nihilism for... Totally, totally. And, of course, in that movie, nihilism is represented by...

Yeah, I mean, I think there's the sense in which it is the kind of weird Jordan Peterson-y, alt-right philosophy version of nihilism, which just means, like, people that think the dominance of the West is bad. And it also reeks a little bit of, like, Big Lebowski nihilism for... Totally, totally. And, of course, in that movie, nihilism is represented by...

Yeah, I mean, I think there's the sense in which it is the kind of weird Jordan Peterson-y, alt-right philosophy version of nihilism, which just means, like, people that think the dominance of the West is bad. And it also reeks a little bit of, like, Big Lebowski nihilism for... Totally, totally. And, of course, in that movie, nihilism is represented by...

crew of i think austrian techno producers called autobahn who are also nihilist and they say throughout the film like we are nihilist we believe in nothing which is a really and obviously coen brothers made that film at least one of them was a philosophy major so they know what they're doing that's kind of the really basic not good enough version of this thing that it seems like the fbi is operating with like people who don't believe in the goodness of the western project

crew of i think austrian techno producers called autobahn who are also nihilist and they say throughout the film like we are nihilist we believe in nothing which is a really and obviously coen brothers made that film at least one of them was a philosophy major so they know what they're doing that's kind of the really basic not good enough version of this thing that it seems like the fbi is operating with like people who don't believe in the goodness of the western project

crew of i think austrian techno producers called autobahn who are also nihilist and they say throughout the film like we are nihilist we believe in nothing which is a really and obviously coen brothers made that film at least one of them was a philosophy major so they know what they're doing that's kind of the really basic not good enough version of this thing that it seems like the fbi is operating with like people who don't believe in the goodness of the western project

can I say something that stood out to me about those definitions? The hatred thing I found really interesting in like the very first definition you give that nihilism is defined as like in a motive state. Because again, I think nihilism is classically conceived totally is almost more like ontological or metaphysical. And by that, I just mean looking at these structures of belief in the world.

can I say something that stood out to me about those definitions? The hatred thing I found really interesting in like the very first definition you give that nihilism is defined as like in a motive state. Because again, I think nihilism is classically conceived totally is almost more like ontological or metaphysical. And by that, I just mean looking at these structures of belief in the world.

can I say something that stood out to me about those definitions? The hatred thing I found really interesting in like the very first definition you give that nihilism is defined as like in a motive state. Because again, I think nihilism is classically conceived totally is almost more like ontological or metaphysical. And by that, I just mean looking at these structures of belief in the world.

So rather than being like motivated by hatred or love or fear or whatever, um, A more classically nihilist view is just, again, like, oh, I've been sold a bill of goods on what the meaning of existence is or what the undermining underlying principles of political reality are. And now I see that they are maybe BS.

So rather than being like motivated by hatred or love or fear or whatever, um, A more classically nihilist view is just, again, like, oh, I've been sold a bill of goods on what the meaning of existence is or what the undermining underlying principles of political reality are. And now I see that they are maybe BS.

So rather than being like motivated by hatred or love or fear or whatever, um, A more classically nihilist view is just, again, like, oh, I've been sold a bill of goods on what the meaning of existence is or what the undermining underlying principles of political reality are. And now I see that they are maybe BS.

Yeah. I guess there's just like this negativity associated with all that language. And of course I was having never heard the definitions that you were just bringing up, you know, the way in which it just quickly zigs and zags to like some very dark stuff in terms of like radicalization. It seemed like there was a reference towards like a, like, like pedophilia or something there.

Yeah. I guess there's just like this negativity associated with all that language. And of course I was having never heard the definitions that you were just bringing up, you know, the way in which it just quickly zigs and zags to like some very dark stuff in terms of like radicalization. It seemed like there was a reference towards like a, like, like pedophilia or something there.

Yeah. I guess there's just like this negativity associated with all that language. And of course I was having never heard the definitions that you were just bringing up, you know, the way in which it just quickly zigs and zags to like some very dark stuff in terms of like radicalization. It seemed like there was a reference towards like a, like, like pedophilia or something there.

Yeah. So it just the getting from A to B there is more like getting from A to Z or something. It's just not a connection that I think would be obvious to anyone who has thought about, read about, written about nihilism as more of an intellectual or even like a political and philosophical concept.

Yeah. So it just the getting from A to B there is more like getting from A to Z or something. It's just not a connection that I think would be obvious to anyone who has thought about, read about, written about nihilism as more of an intellectual or even like a political and philosophical concept.

Yeah. So it just the getting from A to B there is more like getting from A to Z or something. It's just not a connection that I think would be obvious to anyone who has thought about, read about, written about nihilism as more of an intellectual or even like a political and philosophical concept.

Yeah, but which is still a far cry from believing in causing active harm psychologically, physically, whatever, to human beings.