Amerika

When you grow up in this dying civilization, you are introduced to adulthood through the concept of fatalism. Everything sucks, your job is horrible, just suck it up and accept that decay is the norm and all is doomed, and do your duty.

We teach our children fatalism because we have no hope of things getting better. We combine the ideas that it has always been this way and must be this way because, as far as we know, this is the world into which we are born and in which we will die.

Nihilism offends people because it says that there is no inherent rule that things must go this way. In fact, we could choose something different; why do we not? That question haunts us, because to fail to choose something else is to be demoralized, cucked, lost, and self-hating.

As children, we are nihilists. We recognize that we are small islands in a big ocean and all we can do is collect some seabird eggs, find a cave, start a warm driftwood fire, and enjoy our time of being able to make choices and enjoy sensations.

Adults come in and tell us that we have to accept that life is just how it is. We must endure the slavery, pay the taxes, waste time on the television, and suck it up and accept that to be “mature,” we must choke all the joy out of life.

They do not want anything to change. If it does, they will realize they wasted their lives. And if we escape the slavery they endure, they will feel cheated somehow because someone got out of the morass. This will make them feel like they got played by the system.

The dirty secret of the death of the West is that everyone accepts it not only as inevitable, but as good. This lets them feel better for having been collaborators. To that end, they create a false reality where this decay is not just necessary but wonderful.

In this way, a crowd of people enforce misery on each other, lest anyone rise above the mess, and they sacrifice their children to the past instead of granting them a future. All are consumed in the resulting flames.

Nihilism lets us see that the inevitability they speak of is in their own minds, and the maturity they praise is in fact merely compromise for the convenience of avoiding conflict. It is rationalization of self-destruction.

Perhaps the most radical act possible now is to lose faith in the lost faith. Embrace possibility, not what is presently in power. The future consists of choices, and choice is our only weapon against the decay those before us have embraced.

Tags: fatalism, jobs, nihilism, rationalization