Wednesday, October 7, 2015
IN THE DUST OF THIS PLANET
“What philosophy is often referred to is nihilism or pessimism. There might be a purpose to things or to your life or existence, might be an order to things. No inherent meaning, doesn’t matter. In the podcast, the quote written, is how the speaker told his view of nihilism. A true definition to the term nihilism is, a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless. In a simpler term, a nihilist doesn’t have a meaning to life or things. This is relevant to contemporary society in a way of how we view life. Most of us have a clear view, but in modern days, everyone’s views become different and the traditional views are lost. For example, the traditional marriage isn’t the only type of marriage anymore, and our view of a “traditional” marriage is fuzzy, or “unfound”. So, just one example of a nihilism to contemporary society, is our view on a marriage, and it is very relevant, especially in this viewpoint. Today, in a contemporary society, there is no longer a “normal” or “traditional” view on certain things, making the belief of nihilism very, extremely relevant. Maybe, 50 years ago, the point of nihilism was nothing, but as we all begin to change our thoughts and beliefs of things, it becomes relevant, because certain things aren’t just black and white, there begins to have gray areas because there is no “traditional” anymore, especially as our lives changes with many different viewpoints in everything from entertainment, to politics.
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I agree, in today’s society the term normal is no longer relevant. In the podcast they hit on this very well when they say “Nothing exist and nothing matters. And the world that we live in, that we define in terms of humanity, doesn’t care about us.” when they say this in my opinion is correct, our society does not care anymore about what we do and who we do it with, to an extent. I dated a girl whose parents were gay, ten years ago this would have been something that a large majority of people could not wrap their head around. Now gay marriage is legal and a large majority of our society does not care about another person’s sexual orientation. When people stop caring about how others live their lives, then society advances normally in a very positive way giving people more ways to be themselves and in a sense more free.
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