optimistic nihilism, pessimistic nihilism, live and let live, nothing matters why bother, no meaning make your own meaning, it's all the same goddamn drivel that ultimately leads to people subconsciously believing they will be forever atomized and alone so why bother trying?

nihilism is the ultimate apex of individualism, so much so that it masks itself from being this apex of individualism as this grand cosmological outlook. it's using the stars as a justification for not caring about the social fabric and power relations that govern society, it's this insidious capitalist rot that turns us into hedonists or husks.

why?

because the ultimate conclusion of nihilism, no matter how you spin it or what tendency you attach to it, is that nothing matters. and because nothing matters, why bother? live free, die in a blaze, who gives a shit how many are killed in the explosion! it's the most hyperprivileged stance one can take! you think the family struggling to make ends meet on the edge of poverty thinks nothing matters? no shot. they're too busy worrying about what matters to them, for good reason, because it dictates survival!

in an ideology that so loves its masks, its grand cosmological existentialist framework is its very own, and it truly masks a philosophy of self-aggrandizing, hedonistic, solipsistic drivel! it's so disconnected from material reality it finds itself starsearching for proof nothing has meaning! and it's fucking everywhere! it's in shows, it's in books, it's in games, it's in the fucking leftist discourse! every time i see a privileged motherfucker justify the existence of reactionaries due to a nebulous freedom of speech and the "live and let live" bit i want to gouge my fucking eyes out of my skull and take them down with me. it's soul-rotting! it's legitimately soul-rotting! i'm sick of handling it with any ounce of legitimacy! even conversationally!

if you can't do anything on a macro scale, do something on a micro scale. it doesn't have to be grand, but the micro matters. just as the macro matters. things matter. life matters. survival matters. if we dictate our own meaning as the optimistic nihilists say, I'm pretty sure we can all agree that we'd like to keep living, if guaranteed comfort and stability for our lives, so fuck off with the excuse for sitting around and doing mental masturbation about this reverse nirvana of pure hedonism and solipsistic posturing you've been granted by the masters on high and question why they dictate the framework in which you see reality. then get the fuck up, and start making an effort, at any scale, to subvert it. what 'an effort' may be, that is something to examine within the current conditions. if you can't tell, ask those around for advice. even then, agitation is a swiss-army knife if all advice comes up short. i understand how bleak it is, but it is a disservice and mockery to yourself, others, and the future not to try.

the last bit is generally directed to the entirety of touters of nihilism, cringelords and also leftists, but if it hits you, it's something to examine at the very least. there's a reason hitler heavily reinforced nietzschian thought, beyond the whole "sister did it" bit, and there's a reason capitalist media does it as well. i implore you to further examine the reasons why an inherently unstable widely destructive arrangement specifically designed to benefit a specific group of people would have those people pushing a philosophy that discourages commitment to any grander cause or future-building project.