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[adrienmundi]

There's something about the possibility of positive, productive nihilism, the coexistence of the transcendent and the base material, street level, angry angels in gutters kind of thing that promises a way to claim and wield power in a way that I'm failing to articulate but kind of excites me.

Comments

[mothrinventor.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what i'm always trying to say!

[adrienmundi]

Cool, then, that we've stumbled upon shared communication!

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

Wow, that comes really close to something I think about a lot.

I dislike the word 'nihilism', though- it's too much like the insult in Tibetan Buddhism, where you take the 'world as illusion' stuff too literally.

The other day I was thinking of it as two forks: there's the fork you follow to suppress that which is getting you down. That's the fun stuff, the fight club, the 'make kaput what makes you kaput'.

And the other fork is the redemption, the growth, the realisation of identity that the opponent has no effect on for good or ill.

Pursue the growth path alone, you'll always wonder how something hostile tends to trim you down to size. Pursue the path of opposition alone, and you become your enemy.

heh. That's probably not at all what you were thinking about...

[adrienmundi]

It's not unrelated. I'm aiming somewhere in Camus territory, but with the fun still in it, the glee in action, possible destruction, and the letting the darkness out, still in its habitat but in the light, too.