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You’d think that after a hundred and fifty years of cultural obsession with nihilism, someone would have written a decent straightforward book actually about the topic, but no, and as usual I get stuck doing the scut work important academic professionals are too fancy for
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heh no, didn't know you had one (or do you mean the vampires thing?) I simply mean it is ironic to expect nihilists to write books about the position (and non-nihilists can't really provide a good outsider perspective)
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Interesting. I'd consider myself a fairly good approximation. I don't think genuine nihilism leads to depression. But fittingly, I haven't thought too deeply about it.
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My scheme differs from your eternalism/nihilism dichotomy I think, so it may not carry over. I correlate it strongly with lack of urgency, which manifests in various ways. Conversely, anti-nihilism (whatever the chosen pole) always seems to cash out as a sense of life urgency
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