BlkPillPres
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THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN NIHILISM AND DEFEATISM
Conflating these two things is something I often see done on this site, especially by idiot NEETs
Its also done by normies when I talk about nihilistic perspectives on various issues
I am a nihilist and I despise defeatist rhetoric (which you see all over this forum)
So I think I need to make this clear so that this nonsense can stop:
Nihilism - "The rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless"
Defeatism - "The acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations"
Accepting that life is meaningless doesn't mean - "well I have to give up on everything I want now and do nothing"
This is the BS I keep seeing peddled all over this forum, which is 100% false
Nihilism is an observation of reality not a decree of defeatist life choices (which is what defeatism is)
Whether life has meaning or not food still tastes good, sleep still feels refreshing, sex still feels amazing, entertainment is still entertaining, etc, etc, meaning isn't required to enjoy life
I think that is the "root lie" that makes people conflate nihilism and defeatism, the lie that meaning is required to enjoy life, it isn't, all one needs for an enjoyable life, is to have a relatively constant supply of their brain's reward system doing what it does best, that's all, since what causes the reward system to function is you keeping yourself safe and satisfied
WHY NOT BEING A NIHILIST MEANS YOU AREN'T TRULY BLACK PILLED
If you aren't a nihilist you aren't truly black pilled
You'll always have some emotional blind spot that makes you just like any other NPC, a blind spot that will limit your perception of reality and the choices you'd make in life
The most obvious example: MORALITY
Nihilists reject the concept of morality, while the average person always accepts modern moral conventions and asserts them to be absolutes
Yet if they were born in a different era they'd have different morals that their "modern selves" would consider immoral, and they can't seem to comprehend that contradiction
That's their blind spot, that's the blind spot of not being a nihilist, you can't truly be objective, everybody thinks that their personal moral code is "true morality", its nothing but egotistical nonsense
When you speak to the average user on this site you find them easily making contradictory arguments, conveying ideas that display their cognitive dissonance, being influenced by their emotions and their ego, etc
Its really frustrating talking to the average user, because they all THINK they are black pilled but at the end of the day, most of them have some "residual blue pill" left in them, usually in the form of MODERN moral conventions that they can't seem to let go of, or MODERN conventions of masculinity that they try to live up to as a "standard of manliness"
You'd think social rejects would learn to think for themselves, but the want to "fit in" and just "do what you are told" seems to be something "hard to shake off" for most individuals
Conflating these two things is something I often see done on this site, especially by idiot NEETs
Its also done by normies when I talk about nihilistic perspectives on various issues
I am a nihilist and I despise defeatist rhetoric (which you see all over this forum)
So I think I need to make this clear so that this nonsense can stop:
Nihilism - "The rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless"
Defeatism - "The acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations"
Accepting that life is meaningless doesn't mean - "well I have to give up on everything I want now and do nothing"
This is the BS I keep seeing peddled all over this forum, which is 100% false
Nihilism is an observation of reality not a decree of defeatist life choices (which is what defeatism is)
Whether life has meaning or not food still tastes good, sleep still feels refreshing, sex still feels amazing, entertainment is still entertaining, etc, etc, meaning isn't required to enjoy life
I think that is the "root lie" that makes people conflate nihilism and defeatism, the lie that meaning is required to enjoy life, it isn't, all one needs for an enjoyable life, is to have a relatively constant supply of their brain's reward system doing what it does best, that's all, since what causes the reward system to function is you keeping yourself safe and satisfied
WHY NOT BEING A NIHILIST MEANS YOU AREN'T TRULY BLACK PILLED
If you aren't a nihilist you aren't truly black pilled
You'll always have some emotional blind spot that makes you just like any other NPC, a blind spot that will limit your perception of reality and the choices you'd make in life
The most obvious example: MORALITY
Nihilists reject the concept of morality, while the average person always accepts modern moral conventions and asserts them to be absolutes
Yet if they were born in a different era they'd have different morals that their "modern selves" would consider immoral, and they can't seem to comprehend that contradiction
That's their blind spot, that's the blind spot of not being a nihilist, you can't truly be objective, everybody thinks that their personal moral code is "true morality", its nothing but egotistical nonsense
When you speak to the average user on this site you find them easily making contradictory arguments, conveying ideas that display their cognitive dissonance, being influenced by their emotions and their ego, etc
Its really frustrating talking to the average user, because they all THINK they are black pilled but at the end of the day, most of them have some "residual blue pill" left in them, usually in the form of MODERN moral conventions that they can't seem to let go of, or MODERN conventions of masculinity that they try to live up to as a "standard of manliness"
You'd think social rejects would learn to think for themselves, but the want to "fit in" and just "do what you are told" seems to be something "hard to shake off" for most individuals
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