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The Right keeps looking for a term to mean cultureless, and instead of blaming diversity and reliance on government as is appropriate, they found “nihilism” as their target. This forms a handy scapegoat for all loss of values and implicitly posits Christianity as an antidote.

You can see this in the recent dialogue between two law professors, David Bernstein and Adam Mossoff, regarding the Heritage Foundation and its choice to defend free speech instead of punish antisemitism:

As Adam says, this is a time for choosing on the political right: you either abandon conservatism and stand with Tucker Carlson and nihilism, collectivism, Nazism, and Jew hatred, or you stick up for (conserve, if you will) the American traditions of individual rights, religious and ethnic pluralism, and the rule of law.

We can tackle the forgery that is American Conservatism — essentially “Christian libertarianism” based on a 1960s compromise, not what our founders thought about nationalism as the basis for their progressive radical conservatism — at another time, but for now, this was my response:

Gentlemen:

While I appreciate the point you are trying to make about Nick Fuentes, please reconsider lumping us nihilists in with the guy.

Nihilism means a refusal to participate in the consensual hallucination that there are absolute, universal, and objective forms of truths, values, and communications.

Nothing about it says that one must embrace big state ideas, scapegoating, or even notions of individualism.

We are going our own direction and do not want to be part of Nick Fuentes’ form of ethno-pluralism with anti-Semitism and extra messianic Christianity.

Cheers

Brett
Author of “Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity”

Strictly speaking, nihilism is a gateway. As said here before a few times, nihilism refers to negative belief, or a lack of belief in belief alone:

Nihilism means a refusal to participate in the consensual hallucination that there are absolute, universal, and objective forms of truths, values, and communications.

Nihilists reject the idea that all of us humans share the same mind and therefore are the same, which to each of us manifests as the solipsistic assumption, “and all are me.” Humans fail by thinking they are gods; they win by realizing they are mice of the field who are fortunate to have large brains to help them.

We wonder if the concept of “gods” even has any meaning, especially to a believer in the divine, since these are human metaphors projected onto forces that are probably more like electromagnetism or gravity in their fundamental role in the production of the universe.

The nihilist concept — that belief is a factor of the individual, determined by genetics and inclinations, and is not shared — shows us a different view of humanity: many individuals, each with a degree and part of the picture, so you should pick carefully from the sources and leaders you trust.

We cannot use rules to control humans and make bad ones act as if they are good. They simply become better at deception. All human societies die because groups lose sight of goals, fall back on unity enforced by rules, and then are taken over by their lowest echelons of labor force because it is oblivious and likes easy answers.

The workers, far from being innocent victims, are in fact the raging morons who murder most societies. They do not intend that but, being incompetent, they do not understand what their leaders are doing, nor can do as well, and so they elect clever liars who fail almost every time.

People always say about monarchism, “but what if you have a bad king?” In democracy, the inverse is true: you always have bad leaders, except for the rare reaction to the reaction. And then, as soon as that person gains headway, the voters have a kicking screaming tantrum and undo it all.

Really, there is no worse system than democracy. There is no more genocidal or dysgenic social policy than diversity. There is no more destructive economic policy than socialism. And there is no worse way to live than stranded in a concrete jungle of red tape, corporate jobs, anarcho-tyranny, and disposable plastic products.

If you say that, however, it makes people feel bad because they have labored their entire lives under this system. They would rather die being wrong than admit that they were not correct. That would violate their fiction-absolute and interrupt their inverted thought process.

Nihilism does not endorse ethno-nationalism. It opens the door to a radical realism that leads to ethno-nationalism, monarchism, Half Earth, eugenics, perennialism, and other ideas that exist outside the ghetto of the human individual and its self-perceived importance.

Over time, these are winning out because all the other options — a course we set on after the French Revolution — have now failed, including liberal democracy. We have run out of alternatives to doing things the traditionalist way, and now not only does the pendulum swing back, but it falls off entirely.

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