/lit/ - Literature

There's something to be said that nihilism is a modern affliction that coincides with the rise of industrialism and mass culture. Premodern people or indigenous people today, it could be said, experience communal life directly, while the modern experiences it through a series of filters, separators, and abstractions that serve to diminish it at each turn.

The indigenous or premodern is immunized from nihilism despite their base standard of living and more physically painful existence, because they experience communal life from within, rather than as an external object to be scrutinized.

The say stress is a modern disease, but so too anxiety and depression and the nihilism that results when these are your mental reality indefinitely. These states arise when you deviate too far from the model outlined by human sociobiology which happens to be the case with hypertrophied advanced civilization/mass society.