i genuinely feel that if some of the “great” 17th to 19th century thinkers and philosophers wrote their works today they would be considered cringe. i will not be naming examples for my own safety, with one exception: nietzsche would be super cringe.
don’t get me wrong though, lots of cool stuff was written before and after that time period. and not everything from that time period is bad, but a decent chunk of it is.
antiquity makes cringe less perceptible
We stand on the shoulders of cringe giants to become cringe lords
Even if I rot in hell, that doesn’t mean life has meaning. It just means that some deity is a fucked up bastard. The only meaning is created, and the only one I care about is my own 😊
These are unironically the two possibile conclusions for the question “what is the meaning of life?”
There’s no objective or purpose, so there will never be an answer.
meanwhile the one avowed nihilist i’ve known was a super happy-go-lucky dude, and the absurdists i know tend to be majorly unhappy people.
At least for me, absurdism was appealling specifically because I was already unhappy. It’s a somewhat reassuring way to look at the world that doesn’t attempt to create some grand purpose that an unhappy person already feels has failed them. It doesn’t fix the problem, but it is a productive mindset
Lets get some training in:
Absurdism is clearly the best, just look at the way those colors pop!
Do note that it is the same person in each picture. Nihilism is to absurdism as pasta is to spaghetti.
“Let the dark abyss engulf you” vs “Maintain uncomfortable eye contact with the abyss and enjoy it”
that one is even better! nice
Why are the veins in his eyes yellow?
His blood is yellow, that’s hot he gets this healthy looking skin color
Here, have some better philosophical discourse:
The belief that reality is objective holds us back from discovering technologies that exploit the subjectivity of reality. Therefore the practical choice with regards to solipsism/realism is anti-realism
in some sense we already use technology that makes use of a subjective reality
because of quantum mechanics the universe can’t be locally real, therefore quantum technologies would fulfill that requirement in my opinion
if that’s the case, we already use technology based on subjective reality all the time. quantum mechanics is the basis for how some transistors work, utilizing quantum tunneling
Another technology that uses the subjectivity of reality is film. If we always perceived the objective truth, we couldn’t watch Star Wars and see a Jedi. Instead, we’d just see coloured lights on a screen. Our minds are able to construct a subjective reality using a very small amount of stimuli, and create the subjective experience of another whole universe. (Or galaxy far far away, at least).
Meanwhile still basing existence on Xian fantasy and their fear that from their Heaven they won’t be able to see those in Hell suffering so they make memes about it here to stay faithful.
I am krispy kreme. This sent me spiraling for a solid 5 minutes. Good show!
