And it explains their feelings of emptiness and alienation without them needing to take responsibility for it.
Nihilism appeals to young people because it is the only way to be smugly superior without having to actually learn or do anything.
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Nihilism was not supposed to stand on its own as a philososphy, it was part of the process of re-evaluation (that ultimately lead to something similar to existentialism).
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Oh geez I thought u were gonna say it's a logical response to discovering our social and economic hierarchies are absurd and devoid of merit
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And it really ties the room together
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The ultimate irony being that the king of Nihilists, Nietzsche, was an anti-Nihilist...
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The statement seem strangely smugly Superior and untrue at the same time
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I just think it's funny :D I only had an objection with the "Young" part. Would like to change it for "arrogant". Then the statement would stand just fine.
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Yet here you are displaying superiority without actually teaching anything
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