Michael Phillips

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.

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

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

Yeah, there's a sense in which it's painted as like if you knew nothing else and you were to read those definitions and you were just a scared suburban insurance salesman or something, it would sound as if it was like a death cult infecting the minds of children, like zombie-esque little super soldiers.

Yeah, there's a sense in which it's painted as like if you knew nothing else and you were to read those definitions and you were just a scared suburban insurance salesman or something, it would sound as if it was like a death cult infecting the minds of children, like zombie-esque little super soldiers.

Yeah, there's a sense in which it's painted as like if you knew nothing else and you were to read those definitions and you were just a scared suburban insurance salesman or something, it would sound as if it was like a death cult infecting the minds of children, like zombie-esque little super soldiers.

When I was growing up, acceleration just meant accelerating the contradictions of capitalism. But kids these days, that's right, direction, not a good one.

When I was growing up, acceleration just meant accelerating the contradictions of capitalism. But kids these days, that's right, direction, not a good one.

When I was growing up, acceleration just meant accelerating the contradictions of capitalism. But kids these days, that's right, direction, not a good one.