Thinking Like a Nihilist
This post is going to be a terrible, offensive post. I'm putting myself into the most extreme form of thought possible so I caution those who wish to read on:
Is there a point to anything we do? Does it matter if we strive for anything at all? There is one irrefutable fact in life: One day, we're all going to die. No matter what you do, no matter where you go, you cant defeat or outrun death. Death is the greatest unknown any of us will have to face and not only will we all have to face it, we all have to face it alone. Confronted with this grim reality, we must consider some things. What does it matter if someone dies earlier than expected? Suppose a murder occures, we will all feel sorry for the individual in question who was murdered, but does it really matter? This person was bound to die eventually and cutting their life short may seem like a tragedy but is it really? All creatures can die horribly at one time or another and animals have it far worse than humans. Whereas a human may get off relatively easy by being shot, a Wildabeast has the honour being savaged to death by a pack of lions, and this kind of death is commonplace. Humans can suffer terrible deaths but most of this is at the hands of our own kind. It is a tragic irony that in a world where Man can prosper and grow to undreamed of heights, he has no greater enemy than his own kind. If the world is a cruel and brutal place, then humans have made it that way out of their own choices. Seeing as to how we're all animals, what is the big deal in killing a few of us. Is killing a human being any different from killing a Quail or a Deer, No, the only thing that prohibits this is fear of punishment from our own kind. Killing a human is abhorred because WE are humans and are able to relate to the creature being killed. Now for the really big point: murder and rape are natural things. They may not be natural in the human world, but they are natural in the world of nature. These things occur all the time and because humans are also animals, they occur among our kind. These things cannot be denied as they are inevitably part of our psyche. How many of us have had fantasies of killing one of our fellows who we either envy or hate? If you said yes to this question, you have nothing to be ashamed of, if anything, you can be considered a normal person. You cannot deny your animal instinct. It is this instinct that drives us to further our own causes instead of anothers, it is this instinct that gives us sexual and lust fantasies, it is this instinct that drives us to pick up a gun and 'go postal'. Morality is something created by man, and as such, it can be destroyed by man. Human history is a history mainly of oppression and war, involving the strong crushing the weak into submission. Weakness is looked upon with contempt and if anyone truly beleives that these attitudes have deserted us, then you are naive in the extreme. The fact is, we're all going to be dead some day, so what does it matter if we kill someone? In the end we'll be dead, and the person we killed's family will be dead and then our entire generation will be dead and then no one will give a damn about the petty murder which we committed. If anything, doing an 'evil' act will ensure that your name lives on longer than those who perform acts of good. More books have been written about Jack the Ripper than all the American President's combined. People in Mongolia still revere the name of Genghis Khan, who murdered thousands upon thousands in cold blood. Evil acts are more enduring because they strike a chord with our perverse natures. Anyone who has a bird feeder, sit back and watch as the birds eat the food. You'll see them greedily consuming everything and chasing away the other birds that try to eat with them: competition, it drives them. Human beings are very similar.
Well that was nice and depressing wasnt it?
Is there a point to anything we do? Does it matter if we strive for anything at all? There is one irrefutable fact in life: One day, we're all going to die. No matter what you do, no matter where you go, you cant defeat or outrun death. Death is the greatest unknown any of us will have to face and not only will we all have to face it, we all have to face it alone. Confronted with this grim reality, we must consider some things. What does it matter if someone dies earlier than expected? Suppose a murder occures, we will all feel sorry for the individual in question who was murdered, but does it really matter? This person was bound to die eventually and cutting their life short may seem like a tragedy but is it really? All creatures can die horribly at one time or another and animals have it far worse than humans. Whereas a human may get off relatively easy by being shot, a Wildabeast has the honour being savaged to death by a pack of lions, and this kind of death is commonplace. Humans can suffer terrible deaths but most of this is at the hands of our own kind. It is a tragic irony that in a world where Man can prosper and grow to undreamed of heights, he has no greater enemy than his own kind. If the world is a cruel and brutal place, then humans have made it that way out of their own choices. Seeing as to how we're all animals, what is the big deal in killing a few of us. Is killing a human being any different from killing a Quail or a Deer, No, the only thing that prohibits this is fear of punishment from our own kind. Killing a human is abhorred because WE are humans and are able to relate to the creature being killed. Now for the really big point: murder and rape are natural things. They may not be natural in the human world, but they are natural in the world of nature. These things occur all the time and because humans are also animals, they occur among our kind. These things cannot be denied as they are inevitably part of our psyche. How many of us have had fantasies of killing one of our fellows who we either envy or hate? If you said yes to this question, you have nothing to be ashamed of, if anything, you can be considered a normal person. You cannot deny your animal instinct. It is this instinct that drives us to further our own causes instead of anothers, it is this instinct that gives us sexual and lust fantasies, it is this instinct that drives us to pick up a gun and 'go postal'. Morality is something created by man, and as such, it can be destroyed by man. Human history is a history mainly of oppression and war, involving the strong crushing the weak into submission. Weakness is looked upon with contempt and if anyone truly beleives that these attitudes have deserted us, then you are naive in the extreme. The fact is, we're all going to be dead some day, so what does it matter if we kill someone? In the end we'll be dead, and the person we killed's family will be dead and then our entire generation will be dead and then no one will give a damn about the petty murder which we committed. If anything, doing an 'evil' act will ensure that your name lives on longer than those who perform acts of good. More books have been written about Jack the Ripper than all the American President's combined. People in Mongolia still revere the name of Genghis Khan, who murdered thousands upon thousands in cold blood. Evil acts are more enduring because they strike a chord with our perverse natures. Anyone who has a bird feeder, sit back and watch as the birds eat the food. You'll see them greedily consuming everything and chasing away the other birds that try to eat with them: competition, it drives them. Human beings are very similar.
Well that was nice and depressing wasnt it?
posted by david at 9:38 PM
1 Comments:
i'm afraid of death because i'm afraid for the beauty and happiness in this world that i'll miss.
and even tho morals are created by humans, they're still morals. we're still conscious of them. we're able to sense another human's pain. and to give the human race some credit, we're also empathetic creatures too, not just destructive ones. and i don't believe that history is mainly oppression and war. history, though written to record, is written by people with the intent to record the most glorious acts of courage. and glory, in their opinion, cannot take place without violence.
oh the bias of history books. rAwr.
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