I have seen many, many more videos in the modern political spectrum over how appealing to 'the enemy' is impossible, but I have feelings otherwise.
Sure, they may not listen to you today, and they may get the wrong lessons out of it, but the spread of knowledge is not the spread of change, it is the spread of potential change. If they are purposefully ignorant change is near impossible until they are not, but if they are selectively knowledgeable via skepticism more than ego, they still carry something from the discussion. They may in their wisdom inspire someone else to do things better.
When people give up on potential, the world becomes stagnant. It is only when we give up on our fellow man that we give up on their development and growth. They may become a better person 20 years from now, but that isn't nothing.
In that respect I have weirdly more respect for the likes of Spatial, even if I may see his views as deluded; He hasn't given up on appealing to his fellow man, and even if (when) he's wrong it educates people as to what those views even are, rather than their own people giving them a version of it. The guy even gives us Youtube channels and articles, when most won't drop a source when pushed.
What benefits are there to Nihilism, other than waxing your own cock to sorrow?
It's becoming trendy to give up, it feels like 'what else can we do', but appealing to one another is our current cope, be it as Civil War, Apathy, or Contrarianism.
Explain the purpose of this post. Are you thinking this communication is necessary? Who do you think is giving up here? Are you wondering yourself?
Have you not noticed how Gen Z has been nicknamed the Nihilist generation, and those born before '97 reflect similar sentiments?
Politically speaking, it's all infighting and apathy as the bridge between clashes lengthens.
The question is moreover how much communication is possible, during a time where people's automatic 'wisdom' these days is to learn how to not argue with them and accept what's happening quietly. A lot of people keep trying to communicate the idea that someone who disagrees with you is incapable of changing positions, which seems absurd but commonplace now.
Who isn't conditioned to give up right now in one way or another over overstimulation?
In that respect I have weirdly more respect for the likes of Spatial, even if I may see his views as deluded; He hasn't given up on appealing to his fellow man, and even if (when) he's wrong it educates people as to what those views even are, rather than their own people giving them a version of it. The guy even gives us Youtube channels and articles, when most won't drop a source when pushed.
Where are your links and videos to convince anyone that your thesis holds merit? You could be noticing a trend that you've silo'd yourself in. You want to leave it as some open Appeal to Authority? You see the irony?
What benefits are there to Nihilism, other than waxing your own cock to sorrow?
Being factually correct and also that.
aren't you like the OG nihilist? what happened
You mean Turncoat? I was saying Nihilism is being factually correct. I don't see Nihilism as giving up. I guess I forget sometimes the false equations people have about nihilism. And I was saying it's an added bonus to wax your own cock to sorrow.
I once met a dead guy in a haunted house 8 or so years ago, He's been there for God knows how long, consistently attacked by demons, complications all the way around. Wears an amulet of protection made from some gravel found in a nearby desolated parkinglot. None of the protection amulets work and he has several, some made with precious stones, besides the gravel bit from the parkinglot. Now, take into consideration that everyone inside the haunted house has sublime respect for the guy, he's the ordained minister deligating all the prophecies to the ghosts and in charge of running the furnaces of corpses into the graveyard where they come back to inhabit the hosts as they arrive. If each of these ghosts is permanantly trapped in a cycle, has wound up at this haunted house for one way or another, this proves the inevitability of nihilism but only to the perspective of those who have made their way into this haunted house. Most people cannot tolerate going inside of one specific room for more than a singular day and when they come out they are still nihilists. Nobody knows why, nobody knows how. But you have to sell your soul even to begin to come to the succession of events required in order to get into the haunted house. In the center of the house on a night stand that has been converted into an altar there sits a giant glowing red cube, sometimes they change it out for a giant glass ball containing the image of a hermit inside. Nobody can ever figure out how to recover the hermit from the glass ball as he seems to know what's going on better than the ordained minister but nobody's really sure. Now how can any further communication spawn upon said individuals that have made their way into this accursed residence, none of them can figure out. They've tried everything and I do mean everything. The corpses aren't jarring enough and when they are, it's too late the corpse is already inside of the person. Everyone forgets the underlying skeleton beneath in which is simultaneously dancing in the green grass outside of the window in disjointed circulations mimicing unknown rhythms, this is not even enough for any of them to renounce from their lack of perceived disillusionment with being inside the haunted house it already took their entire lives or some other assortment of bizarre factors to arrive at. Some of them are convinced they've never left the house and if they could revive the hermit from the glass ball to get them out of the house, he's going to do a reverse Plato's Cave allegory on them and instead kill them instead of providing them with the foundations for a society with beautiful statues of the ideal human form instead of all the damn skulls lying around. So they just continue about with their daily lives.
aren't you like the OG nihilist? what happened
Anti-Nihilist.
No reason to go on other than finding pleasure in life, somehow, and those pleasures are becoming that much more inaccessible.