Fundamentalism is knowing only one big story
Nihilism is losing the plot of that story
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I feel like I was born into a context with many different/divergent stories, and my nihilism arose 'softly' from dissonance b/w them
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🤔 how does one triangulate/articulate the difference? is there a relevant 2x2 for this
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So the only big story that doesn’t make one a fundamentalist is that there are many small stories?
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I think "one big story" means "one central, axiomatic" story. Ie "there are many small stories" violates the "one big story" principle
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But isn’t the lack of a single big story actually a big story in itself? Genuinely asking.
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No, that would reduce the notion of a story to vacuity. It's more an epistemic principle/condition/assumption.




