A Legacy Of Nihilism

Recent visitors may not know that this site — along with its cohorts at CORRUPT, ANUS, Amerika, and Death Metal Underground — consists of the culmination of nearly three decades of writing about nihilism and almost four of thinking about it.

Nihilism struck me one day as an antidote to the complete insanity of adults around me, who I observed were tormented by death. Alone in the forest, I suddenly felt that everything was in the hands of benevolent force of life itself, and that the tension between the tangible and the present moment and the unpredictable, estimated, approximated, ambiguous, and mysterious future and distant consequences of our actions was the driving force behind humanity.

To address this, I invented my homebrew nihilism from what I knew at a young age: the woods, and what I had seen in other humans and could test in myself. This nihilism consisted of a simple statement, which is that reality was both the tangible and intangible, comprised of a fusion between what we might call natural law and logic, using the ecosystems of the forest as a guide. It was based on life, in rejection of human life and the triad of universals — values, morality, and truths — which took the place of the one consistent and therefore real thing, which was external reality itself. It rejected humanism and the manipulative nature of human control, and favored understanding the logical chains of events and the reasons why things happened as they did.

Like most things I write, this philosophy is 60% borrowed from my influences (if you have read Plato, Burroughs, Eckhart, Schopenhauer, Kant, and Nietzsche you have the basics) and 40% entirely of my own creation in a form that I have found nowhere else. It is simply my framework which encloses the knowledge of the past in the unique perspective that apparently only I can bring to the discussion. Since those days, I have endeavored to understand that moment of clarity in the woods, and thrashing toward that clarity through a stream of words.

You can pick up on these through my writings on nihilism, including the following:

• Nihilism: A Philosophy Based in Nothingness and Eternity
• The Black Pill
• Radical Traditionalism and Nihilism
• Nihilism, conservatism and parallelism
• Most Conservatives Do Not Understand Nihilism
• Confrontation With Nihilism
• Nihilism is the basis of conservatism
• Neoreaction and nihilism
• Nationalism and nihilism
• Nihilism vs Fatalism
• Reality is Nihilism
• What is Nihilism?
• Love and Nihilism: A Parallelism Primer (See also: A Parallelism Primer)
• More musings on nihilism
• Is Nihilism just warmed over, leftist fatalism?
• Nihilism: in search of a working definition
• In simple terms, what is nihilism
• Nihilism and authority
• Nihilism as Holy Grail
• Nihilism
• Entropy And Heat Death
• Thought, Not Emotion, Is The Path To Learning, Which Is Esoteric
• Interview With A Nihilist
• Idealism And Platonic Forms
• Radical Traditionalism
• The Amerikan Nihilist Underground Society (ANUS)
• The Essence Of Supernatural Thinking
• Introduction To The Black Pill
• Just You And The Universe
• Fear Of A Black Pill
• Morality Does Not Require God
• The Raging Realist
• Response thread (07-12-15)
• Dualism vs. Monism in a Nihilist Context
• Traditionalism and the Cosmos
• Futurist Traditionalism: Deep Ecology, Traditionalism, Naturalism and Paleoconservatism
• Futurist Traditionalism
• Facing emptiness
• Belief in Nothing
• Thresholds
• What is Reality?
• Learning to Fly
• The Eternal Circle
• Postmorality
• The Sympathetic Fallacy
• The First Lecture
• Crux
• I’d rather have wings
• Oncology
• A call to action
• Frequently asked questions about nihilism
• Nihilism is realism
• Human death
• Scientific monism
• Why nihilism is not anarchy
• Degrees of nihilism
• The “authorities” are wrong
• Nihilism
• The Futurist Misanthrope FAQ
• Meditations on the Death of Wishful Thinking
• On Death Metal and Nihilism
• Ten Types Of Modern Fool
• Sodomize The Weak
• The Interview That Antifa Wants Destroyed