1. Everyone accuses anything reductionist of being nihilistic. But reductionism is a matter of degrees. Believing in one less "thing" than someone else doesn't make you a full blown nihilist any more than believing in one less god than someone else makes you an atheist.
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Replying to @Alephwyr @averykimball
2. Human nature contains whatever the source of meaning is but not everything in human nature is necessary to whatever the source of meaning is
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Replying to @Alephwyr
you're asserting your authorial prerogative to a final understanding of human nature and meaning, and from where it is derived you don't want to inhabit this tactical position
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Replying to @averykimball
Look. Every second I exist is coercion. My existence is coercion. I don't care that my only consistent position is to answer back in the same terms as my enemies. It doesn't matter.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
the schmittian stance isn't the only coherent political stance if all you will *ever* have is what you have, then it makes sense but if, through creation, there is a better for all in a conflict, then it becomes absurd
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Replying to @averykimball
I'm literally trying to instate post scarcity according to the most liberal stable scheme I can conceive of.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
all conceptions of post-scarcity are narrowly subjective "scarcity", if it's a fundamental problem (which thank god it is), is what drives us to progress sacrificing all progress- *all meaning outside a definition of scarcity*- to solve a *sliver* of scarcity, is nihilistic
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Replying to @Alephwyr
what cost are you willing to pay (or cause other people to pay, which is the real question) to achieve "post-scarcity"? that's you choosing, politically, what meaning will be discarded for *your* meaning this is nihilism (if you even care about nihilism)
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Replying to @averykimball
The destruction of all self-described modes of authenticity that are inseparable from biology.
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Everyone makes such choices
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Replying to @Alephwyr
people choose to *not* follow a reductive biological meaning all the time monks don't have kids, women choose to not have kids people kill themselves for higher purposes
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Replying to @averykimball
The religious live largely by lies. Most people eat meat, masturbate, kill insects and other unwanted creatures, vote, and other deadly things. The end of predation alone would be worth the loss of whatever meaning you are shilling for.
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