Harari is simply asserting that Whig History is tire and is powered by Nihilism, without trying to make it plausible that this could be the case. This appeals to nihilists and Whigs, which more or less corresponds to appealing to complacency with the appearance of power.https://twitter.com/jim_rutt/status/1211299043713933312 …
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You are free to drop your identifications with maintaining any system (ego, relationships, group, nation, species, God, life, consciousness, complexity), which also makes you free to drop all your values and reach Nirvana. There is nothing you have to do if you stop caring.
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Nihilism seems to be a kind of suffering, caused by the fundamental absence of a way to realize one's meaning, and the inability to stop caring. It usually happens when you prove that God does not exist, but don't give up your need for God's existence.
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