The foundation of philosophy are words and symbols.
Art.
Language is an artform.
How we use words/symbols exposes our motive.
Art that wishes to represent reality as opposed to art wanting to represent one’s reaction to reality.
The movement from world inward, as opposed to the movement from inward towards the world - projection.
Philosophy is about using words to connect with the world.
Nihilism is about using words to disconnect form the world.
Nihilism, in brief…
Nihilism is a school of thought, an attitude, developing from man’s reactions to his emerging self-awarness. Self-awarness exposes him to new sources of suffering in that it makes man aware of how he relates to world, and to others participating in it - a source of insecurity, vulnerability, inferiority.
Objectivity is this awareness of self and other from a third-person perspective.
So subjectivity becomes a refuge, inverting self-awarness and returning to the manimal state before self-cosnciuosness emerged…only this time it is shared creating inter-subjective self-referential ideologies of self-comforting.
Nihilism can be positive or pure/negative, depending on its method of embracing the nil or using it to fabricate an alternative reality.
It is masculine or feminine.
Nihilism is entirely linguistic, abstract, semiotic…the degree of nihilism determining the degree of detachment from reality being idealized.
Nihilism is not philosophy it is anti-philosophy the end of it, the obliteration, undermine of tis foundations to achieve finality, an end…in a void. A void the nihilists sees as an opportunity to fill with his own projections, based on his own private needs/desires.
Therefore, it must accuse others of what it is most guilty of…emotionalism, hate, subjectivity, ideological motives etc.
It knows its own motives are self-serving and ideologically founded so it must make all perspectives equally vulnerable to this accusation.
Nihilism must self-contradict if it hopes to survive in a world it dismisses as illusory. The degree of its self-cotnradictions - tis failures to produce its idealized alternative - is determined by the degree of its nihilism, i.e., annihilation, negation of the sensually perceived, experienced world.
Nihilism is a coping mechanism and a useful political tool. The masses need comforting and alternatives to a world they feel threatened by.
Masses born and raised within sheltering systems are more inclined to need this comforting alternative. For them nihilism is a matter of survival, not integrity.
Back to language.
Words are projections of a mind’s abstractions, i.e., ideas, concepts, either referring to what is sensually perceived or attempting to usurp, or deny, negate, what is sensually perceived.
Words are conduits connecting a mind’s abstractions to a world independent from these abstractions - a world that requires constant reaffirmation, forcing the mind to constantly adjust its abstractions.
Attacking language as meaningless is an attempt to discredit the only way we can relate and share our concepts with the real world.
It is a method of undermining and cultivating distrust in one’s own senses; undermining self-confidence, so as to create the type of mind that can then be easily integrated and manipulated and…exploited by a collective - particularly a nihilistic collective that needs quantities of followers to validate its ideology, and needs converts to survive, because without minds sharing the same delusions it disappears. It’s world vanishes because it does not exist anywhere but in the minds of its believers; existing only as abstractions externalized via semiotics.
So, nihilists never create their own perspective from how they related to the world, but adopt a world and then are given justifications from popular icons and idols. they never speak about the world, they always speak about another speaking about another speaking about the world.
words referring to words, referring to words, until the connection disappears in a self-referential cognitive loops, leaving the real world outside as the source of pain and suffering as the only experience that can contradict their common ideology.
If words are not used arbitrarily, to refer to ideologies, but to shared phenomena, we can all observe and test and falsify independently, then they are tools not to produce clarity but to obscure and create mysticism.
One begins with physis, then proceeds to metaphysis, to construct a foundation, and then projects into the future a desired ideal to direct his will.
Metaphysis must be grounded and limited by physis, otherwise it is nothing more than a theory expressing a hope; the projected objective, the ideal, must go through physis and connect to metaphysis, otherwise it is an unattainable, fantasy.
Triangulation.
At the base physis and metaphysis, the later complementing and disciplined by the former, and at the peak, ideology.
