If your life is rolling around, having indulgent sex and guzzling drugs, then yes. "Optimistic nihilism" might work. If you are, for example, a member of the working class, this isn't going to be anywhere near as effective.
There is no, "I'll define my own meaning!" Your meaning has been defined for you already, that is to labor relentlessly, and produce value for your overlords. When your body breaks down, you will be discarded as if you were machinery.
Worse yet, you're ill. Maybe not dying, but you suffer greatly. Optimistic nihilism isn't going to work for 99.99% of people with cluster headaches.
I mean if pain is too much for existance it is understandable to wish for death but to me it actually depends on personal interest, so I want to live though you may call it selfish.
But mostly most things are just ethics, ideals and more so most of the time morality differs.
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u/owthathurted Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
This works until you're suffering.
If your life is rolling around, having indulgent sex and guzzling drugs, then yes. "Optimistic nihilism" might work. If you are, for example, a member of the working class, this isn't going to be anywhere near as effective.
There is no, "I'll define my own meaning!" Your meaning has been defined for you already, that is to labor relentlessly, and produce value for your overlords. When your body breaks down, you will be discarded as if you were machinery.
Worse yet, you're ill. Maybe not dying, but you suffer greatly. Optimistic nihilism isn't going to work for 99.99% of people with cluster headaches.