The Fracture of Nothing

Nihilism is the belief of nothing. It is the belief that nothing has any real existence or any real importance. It is the belief that we cannot understand the reality that we are in because of our emotional attachment to it. And emotional attachment s keep you from understanding the world. We are slaves to our passions. We are slaves to our passions. World War I taught us that the Romantic view of the Past, the view of dulce et decorum est was just silly. People die in wars. People die in wars in rather unromantic ways, such as gas and VDs. We need to escape the Matrix. We need to free our minds. Nihilism can help us do that. It helps us see that the world is merely phenomenological. It is merely what can be seen, tasted and touched. Romanticism provides nobody anything but more and more babyish flirtations, and while flirting may be good for teens, it does not make a real life. We need a real world.