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RE: Nihilism remedy for Anxiety? Is nihilism a viable remedy to anxiety and even conducive to success.
when you put it like that it does make a lot more sense to me, normally coming up with rational solutions for your problems to build a bridge to your end goal is the best way forward, and it reminds me a bit of thus spoke Zarathustra actually, but personally i always saw nihilism as a state of being stuck in the mud, basically running out of solutions to your problem, a bit defeatist, but I probably misunderstood nihilism maybe
That's a really good way to put it, this is mostly just rationalizing an imaginary bridge to take you further from anxiety. Plans, goals, something to latch on to, sometimes it's all someone needs. Now I haven't read Zarathustra but to me, nihilism has always been realizing that there wasn't a real problem in the first place, which ironically enough, sometimes leads to the most interesting solutions.