Nihilism as a way of life

mike mo
mike mo
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

I don’t believe that nihilism is a morbid defeatist way of life. It comes to me at the very least as a source of complete freedom, honesty and integrity seeing the way things are. So many things in life are a dice game, why does one think chance games interest the great apes so much? Because it is reflected in the reality they live in. The apes try to reduce this chaos, but in doing so, they kill the art. Art has and always will favor the chaotic destructive individuals whose will to live is constantly being challenged by their troubled unstable lives. That is why people who literally had the world in their palm end their life. Art is a war. A war against oneself and the universe. The ultimate middle finger to the clear meaningless of the whole thing if one dares to be honest enough to stare into that abyss. Of course this war cannot be sustained forever, eventually the game comes to an end. At some point the organism just doesn’t give a shit anymore. I think the point is not to restrain the beast inside that threatens to make a mess of things within a heartbeat. The passion inside that could give a shit what one’s conscience advisory processes say. The beast says FREEDOM, SEX, ART, WAR. Whereas one’s fake self inculcated in one by society and one’s environment saying CONFORM, SURVIVE, GET GOOD GRADES, KEEP JOB, PEACE and all sorts of constipated shit just to keep playing a fucking sad excuse of a game that should’ve probably ended years ago. A sad cockroach molt of a rotting human being. Continuing to continue. Does not respect self enough to fight for one’s right to die like a fucking stray starving dog in the heat of the crazed madness one calls one’s fucking life. At the very least one can be a martyr for the beast within that simply wants its fucking physical autonomy and be nailed to a fist like cross raising its middle finger to the sad twisted world us great apes have created. More intent on becoming small pieces of metal and fuel for an insatiable machine like system than becoming actualized as living things, one begs the question, why? Lets give in to that barbarian that simply wants to fight the good fight, because if not, look forward to the mediocrity of trying to eliminate chance, art from an already bland and tasteless world.

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