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[Anonymous No.14322053]

Dostoevsky has become a teenager's writer, the issue of nihilism a teenage issue. How this has come about is hard to say, but the result is at any rate that the whole of this vast question has been disregarded while at the same time all critical energy is directed to the left, where it is swallowed up in ideas of justice and equality, which of course are the only ones that legitimize and steer the development of our society and the abyssless life we live within it. The difference between nineteenth-century nihilism and ours is the difference between emptiness and equality. In 1949 the German writer Ernst Jünger wrote that in the future we would have something approaching a world state. Now, when liberal democracy reigns supreme in modern societies, it looks as though he was right. We are all democrats, we are all liberal, and the differences between states, cultures, and people are being broken down everywhere. And this movement, what else is it at heart, if not nihilistic? "The nihilistic world is in essence a world that is being increasingly reduced, which naturally of necessity coincides with the movement toward a zero point," Jünger wrote. A case in point of such a reduction is God being perceived as "good," or the inclination to find a common denominator for all the complicated tendencies in the world, or the propensity for specialization, which is another form of reduction, or the determination to convert everything into figures, beauty as well as forests as well as art as well as bodies. For what is money if not an entity that commodifies the most dissimilar things? Or as Jünger writes: "Little by little all areas are brought under this single common denominator, even one with its residence far from causality as the dream." In our century even our dreams are alike, even dreams are things we sell. Undifferentiated, which is just another way of saying indifferent.

[Anonymous No.14323095]

so this is taken from a book called Mein Kampf, ye?

[Anonymous No.14323134]

>>14323095
>Knausgård has argued that a frightening characteristic that connects Mein Kampf to the writings of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Utøya massacre, is that in the mind behind both texts there seems to be an 'I' and a 'we' but no 'you,' reflecting a dangerous blindness that allowed an otherwise impossible evil."

this is actually pretty true, and the same could be said for American school shootings, in a country with an ideology centered on the self, in uniformly painting everyone with the same brush 'white', 'black', not only can someone become a shooter, but a society can endlessly reproduce new shooters by denying that person as an individual themselves. they were never a 'you', so they don't see 'you' either

[Anonymous No.14323215]

Dostoevsky's critique of 19ht Century Nihilism can be applied to both modern radical sides