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- It’s all about “mindful nihilism”, which is essentially a mindset that gives you the space to enjoy the simple moments in life available to you, like noticing a crisp autumn morning, rather than torturing yourself with thoughts of the dreams and goals you think you ought to be chasing.
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Jul 22, 2021 · In her seminal work, The Sunny Nihilist, Syfret presents the optimism in Nihilism, encouraging us to dismantle our self-care and self-centered way of living and accept a life more or less ordinary. Syfret re-examines the meaning of worth, value, time, happiness, success, and connection, and guides us towards the alternative path of pointless ...
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Dec 7, 2022 · The cleansing power of sunny nihilism. This is a kind of optimistic nihilism that highlights the delicate beauty of existence, the absurdity of life, and the exciting chaos of the everyday. Understand the difference between passive and active forms of nihilism.
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Syfret says nihilism's basic message is that "life is meaningless". "Anything around you that is trying to give you any kind of direction — whether that is politics, religion or your understanding of love — is kind of just made up," she tells ABC RN's Life Matters. Nihilism says that, in the scheme of things, everything we do is pointless and every...
It can be. In her new book The Sunny Nihilist, Syfret gives some examples of nihilism-gone-wrong, including being used by the aforementioned Nazis to justify their atrocities and by Russian anarchists to justify a political assassination. Today we see nihilism espoused by alt-right influencers and "black pill" incel groups. Syfret says if you come ...
Well spotted. Syfret describes Friedrich Nietzsche as "the poster boy of nihilism". "He didn't invent it but he very much brought it to the forefront," Syfret says. But, she says, Nietzsche didn't consider himself as a nihilist. "He didn't say nihilism is this endpoint where you reject all meaning and then you just sit in a dark room," Syfret says....
Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth was a Nazi — when she died in 1935, Hitler attended her funeral. In 1887, she and her husband attempted to found a colony of 'racially pure' Germans in Paraguay. It failed spectacularly. The couple returned home and her husband killed himself. By this time, Friedrich Nietzsche had experienced a mental breakdown and in t...
More than 120 years, yes. But Syfret says nihilism is now embedded in internet culture. She gives the example of young pop music fans posting about their idols murdering them, or the gleeful memes shared at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when a Japanese theme park banned screaming, instead asking ride-goers to 'scream inside your heart'. Yo...
So do I. But ultimately, millennia from now, neither you nor I nor that ice cream will exist. "Whether you have a great day at work, whether you absolutely nail your presentation, whether you're super charming on the zoom date you have tonight — in the scope of human history, of the history of the planet, the reality is these things don't really ma...
Jan 4, 2022 · In her seminal work, The Sunny Nihilist, Syfret presents the optimism in Nihilism, encouraging us to dismantle our self-care and self-centered way of living and accept a life more or less...
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Mar 7, 2022 · In this book length essay, Syfret proposes that the reader reconsider the much-maligned philosophy of Nietzsche, arguing not only that it needn’t lead one into a dreary morass of gloomy thinking, but that it might just help one live more in the now while escaping brutal cycles of self-punishment.
Between fart jokes and sibling pranks Arthur interrogated identity, Rocko’s Modern Life questioned the banality of suburban capitalism, Hey Arnold con-sidered the imprint of family trauma, and even Rugrats − a show about the exploits of babies − grappled with the endless expanse of death.
The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness. Wendy Syfret. Chronicle Prism, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-797-21580-8. Journalist Syfret (How to Think Like an Activist)...
