/lit/ - Literature

I'm not religious, but even as an agnostic with no true belief or affiliation to God, i can say with absolute confidence: Materialistic, antitheistic, hedonistic nihilism already took over: Individuality, meaning and truth are doomed beyond repair.

Capitalist technocrats maximize their social control by denying all philosophically based logic or value, and rejecting all reality that is not mathematical, described in a physics model; Making radical scientism the norm is their strategy in order to make opponents appear "irrational", and the highly exploitable hedonistic consumer lifestyle to be "optimal" as "pleasure is all there is". We cannot recover from such a drastic crisis on our perception of reality, the lull of scientism utopias promised is too strong for the majority: Maximized pleasure via drugged pineal glands and VR will be the new "heaven".

Philosophy is dying and becoming a joke, scorned, viewed as ramblings about things that don't exist; Due to its' comfort and pleasure, science is now the only way to say anything the public will hear, in a few decades, no one will believe in any meanings; With no empirical evidence to elevate morality's value, sociopathy will naturally overtake any shred of empathy left, as it is optimal for climbing to the top; Amoral hedonism will dethrone all other normatives, we are in a march towards egoists valuing nothing but maximizing their own pleasure, who will eliminate all else.

Go on Quora, Reddit, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, or even to any college, any mainstream academy, in all mainstream platforms the idea of life having meaning is loathed, the idea of valuing life beyond pleasure is laughed at: Often, no counterargument is even used anymore, simply humiliation, beration, distaste, baseless reductionism, dissidents to the reductionistic nihilistic view are not welcome anywhere outside of fringe communities like 4Chan, we are on a path to undesirability.

Life-denying, antitheistic regimes have proven ruthless and effective in their quest to reductionize and industrialize all human life, crushing individuality, China, USSR: The Holodomor, the Christian arrest and torture since the Chinese Revolution. We are only a life-denying majority away from the virtue-signalling elites abandoning moral pretenses and exterminating or outcasting dissidents. And China expands into the most powerful country in the world, for nihilistic sociopathy is undefeatably optimal for accumulating power.

There is no future for humanity but one of cold, nihilistic, corporate enslaved pleasure, an invincible regime of capitalist technocrats herding us as cyborgs reduced to orgiastic animals, a dystopia of pleasure, a Brave New World as predicted perfectly by Huxley.

Even Nietzsche in his warnings against nihilism underestimated how little hope there would be for humanity, the entirety of post-nihilism history is a fatalistically predetermined insurmountable march towards the oppression of life-affirming philosphies.

This book has been an absolute slog until about page 150/220.

I don't know, it actually doesn't seem to be that bad of a world.