What Nihilism Is Not

This episode narrates the new pages "'Nihilism is OK' is not OK" and "The uncanny absence of nihil –ism".

 

"Nihilism is inevitable, but not a problem." This is mistaken: it makes you miserable and ineffective, and erodes social and cultural capacity.

 

 

Nihilism, like botulism, is not an ideology or conceptual system. It is a stance: an emotionally-charged way of being.

 

 

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In "Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster" John Nerst analyzes the relationship between postmodernism as an academic theory, and "pomo" as a popular way of relating to meaningness.

 

 

I struggled with saying "schismatic subsects", but you only get the edited version in which I nailed it. :)

 

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