Reminder that Chad worship is the deepest form of nihilism

[Anonymous No.16422582]

"One must address the opinion that nihilism is a disease with caution. With a bit of observation, one will find that physical health is connected with it—above all, where it is vigorously at work. With passive nihilism it is different. The dialectical play of increasing sensitivity and increasingly powerful actions that move our age is based upon it. Primarily, one cannot maintain that nihilism is based upon disease, nor even upon decadence, although both are certainly found there in abundance.

If one considers the immense efforts of work and of will that the active nihilist demands of himself, his disdain for pity and pain, the fluctuations from high to low temperatures to which he exposes himself, and the cult of the body and its worldly powers that one ordinarily finds in him, one must admit that he has received the gift of good health. And in fact one can discover that he has established a level of performance that he demands of himself and others absolutely. In this, he is not unlike the Jacobin who can be considered one of his precursors.

Nevertheless, it is peculiar that such Cyclopes and Titans emerge in a world in which caution is increasing in the extreme, and where one wants to avoid even the slightest draft. Meanwhile, in the welfare state, with its entitlements, health insurance, safety nets and narcotics, one sees types emerging, whose skin is tanned like leather and whose skeleton seems to be of iron. It may be that these are complementary figures, in the sense of color theory; the general weakening of nerve requires it. One inquires about their schools, about what has shaped them. They are surely diverse.

In the first place, one can recognize the school of civil war—the life of the political nihilists and social revolutionaries, the camps and prisons, Siberia. With them also belong, like a mirror image, the dispossessed, the degraded, the disgraced, escapees from the waves of terror, purges and liquidations. One sees here the one and there the other triumphant, or even, as in Spain, at a stalemate. What is common in all these encounters is their complete mercilessness. The adversary is no longer seen as a man; he stands outside the law."

[Anonymous No.16422586]

"The material battles of the First World War form the other source. It brought forth a man of iron and with him a new style of action and a series of frontist movements, which the failed policy confronted helplessly. One can foresee that the Second World War, in particular in Germany and Russia, will produce persons similarly formed. In the experience, the knowledge of those years spent in the East, including the fate of prisoners, there lies a still uninvestigated chapter of pain, the authentic currency of our age.

Finally, important in this connection is that special type of work called sport. It manifests the aspiration not just to normalize a higher degree of physical health, but to enter the record books at the limits of the possible, even to exceed them. In alpine skiing, flying, ski jumping, there are demands that surpass the human and an automatism preceded by deadening. Such records raise the bar over and over again. This process even translates to the workplace; it produces those worker-heroes who master twenty times over the work quota of a single exploited worker of 1913.

Considered from this point of view, one cannot blame illness, decadence or morbidezza for this development. Instead, one sees men appear who go their way like iron machines, indifferent even when the catastrophe breaks them. Admittedly, the spectacle remains rather strange, in which currents of activity and passivity touch, while the plankton sinks to the bottom and sharks rise up—on the one hand, the most tender impressionism, on the other, explosive action; on the one hand, subtle and pained understanding, on the other, will and excessive development of power."

[Anonymous No.16422586,1]

A lot of gobbledygook there, OP. I just have one question. Can you really be a nihilist if you're high energy? If you are truly a nihilist, you should have ennui because nothing matters. If you have elan vital arising from or associated with a philosophy of nihilism, then you are not really a nihilist. You are really of two things. You are either a sociopath that takes pleasure in destruction, a twisted form of Epicureanism I suppose. Or you are a liar - to yourself or to others. You SAY you believe in fuck-it-all, but really, you are on a mission to replace it all with an object of your own design. Creative destruction, as it were.