Why was his warning about Nihilism so important?

Why was his warning about Nihilism so important?

Look around you. You see what happens when people have nothing to strive for, they start to self-destruct.

This is somewhat similar to Isiah Berlin's notion of positive and negative liberty. We live in a world of negative liberty, which is a world intentionally with no meaning. However, positive liberty, which is liberty with some kind of purpose attached, will always be a massive threat to negative liberty, because of the meaning, purpose and hope it provides.

Or in other words: people will never settle for a simple office job, and will sometimes even prefer neo-nazi/ISIS membership over it

This is only true because most people are looking for a gnostic escape from the physical world as opposed to seeing the beauty it has.

Is nihilism the most meme philosophy?

A well-paid Neo-Nazi is likely better than a poor office stooge. I see your point with that.

Gnosticism is

It is ever since the internet was created

>since the 19th century
ftfy

this

unenlightened butthurt hedonists detected

>DUDE SUFFERING IS BAD AND SHOULD BE NULLIFIED AT ALL COSTS LMAO

>implying people who become neonazis or ISIS-members get office jobs.

These group attract people who failed fullfilling society's expectations. Pic very much related, this guy was some brony neet before joining ISIS.

>the complexity and abstract nature of the science and philosophy of gnosticism is summed up by user's asinine assumptions
not even a core tenet bruh are you even trying

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Or Society fails to fullfill their expectations.

You literally believe the material world is evil bud, sorry, but nietzsche was right to hate you

Not IS but you can understand the point I am trying to make.

I don't think it was, and I don't think nihilism is inherently destructive. What I do think is destructive is the despair that comes from our transition away from meaning towards nihilism, and I think Nietzsche's ultimate aim was to avoid that by propping us up with another meaning, when instead we could focus on a healthy transition into nihilism.

but what do you think this nihilism would look like and how would a more positive nihilism differ from absurdism?

Probably something like Taoism (the early philosophical Taoism of the Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu), and I think it would differ from Absurdism in that there wouldn't be a specific drive to rebel against the meaningless nature of existence.

You can't adopt Nietchzes nihilism. It is self-refuting. If nothing matters on principle, then the principle of nihilism does not matter.

>he hasn't achieved nihilism level yet

Tip top kek

Nietchze wasnt a nihilist, he wrote a whole bunch of books about how necessary and important is was to avoid becoming a nihilist

at about a 5 or 6 right now. though it seems like there is a significant gap between tier 6 and infinity.

Same here.

Levels 3 and 4 were fucking brutal, though.

>comparing neo-nazis to ISIS

yikes........ *cringe*

Level 0 is GOAT though tbqh senpai

It's true, though, in as much as the "desire for a transcendent Cause" aspect user described. Both nazis and islamists are often the downtrodden, disgruntled lower-classes rebuking the coarsely individualist materialism that threatens their traditional lifestyle. Both have the extremely legitimate claim of a spiritual need that international capitalism is neglecting. Man can't live on tendies and TV alone, the massive anxiety, depression, and frequency suicide of the affluent modern Westerner should speak to that.

This is not to equate one or another MORALLY, certainly, but you can see how the psychology is comparable, and indeed fairly sympathetic.

Worst list ever.

because it was hypocritical

what would you change to make it a better list?

how so?

I think your analysis is inspired by our personal experience

You're implying that the only group of Nazi sympathizers are the ones you interact with on this website. You don't know who in our society does and does not because it is a socially condemnable belief that will ruin your career if you vocalize it. Who knows how many Nat Soc's are in our civ.

you can't escape nihilism by pulling a category of meaning out of your ass which is necessarily subordinate to your nihilistic ontology

>it is a socially condemnable belief that will ruin your career
So we see the trailer-trash that have the least to lose, of course. No self-respecting chemical engineer or philologist would speak out, oh no.
But among the upper classes, what factors would attract someone to either ideology, if not those I mentioned? If you're satisfied with materialist, nationalist, individualist etc. and don't mind Rabbi next door or Tyrese seeing your daughter, what pull would fascism hold for you? The fundamental "Cause" is what separates extremism from, idk, political reform with a lacking sense of urgency.
You would be the rightist version of a "social democrat" instead of socialist.

No religion would be better, imho