02-02-2012, 02:45 PM
My understanding of existential nihilism is pretty much that there's no greater meaning to life, we're the result of choices made by those who've gone before and our own choices influence the direction of other lives, but at the end of the day we're pretty much subject to the whims of circumstance. We can choose to fight against this and feel hopelessly miserable and pessimistic, but I don't really consider there's much point to being pessimistic or optimistic when the outcome is partly in our hands but largely in the hands of random strangers. Far better to suck it up and poke fun at the world in general, and politicians specifically because they're the ones who provide the most fodder for ridicule.
Not that I consider myself an existential nihilist, but existentialist to a fairly large degree. On my less cynical days, I'd like to imagine myself a Pantheist, but I think mostly that's just the same as wishing I owned a unicorn.
Not that I consider myself an existential nihilist, but existentialist to a fairly large degree. On my less cynical days, I'd like to imagine myself a Pantheist, but I think mostly that's just the same as wishing I owned a unicorn.
It could be worse