nihilism, n.All

Nihilism is just another aspect of our contemporary milieu. . . The fact that nothing grounds or legitimizes our practices and pain, suggests that we don't have the ability to overcome our pain, only to recognize our pain.

Nihilism is a condition in which there is a disjunction between our [inherited] experience of the world and the conceptual apparatus we have at our disposal to interpret it.

Nihilism is, in its ideal form, a kind of affirmation (an openness toward the world) which one tries to forcefully direct. Affirmation requires trust in a world and what may yet transpire in it, beyond what we are 'warranted' to assert.

Nihilism is just a disillusioned metaphysics whereby angst is the flipside of faith.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Nihilism is affirmation that is directed. Affirmation requires trust in a world and what may yet transpire in it beyond what we are 'warranted' to assert.

Nihilism is a kind of eternal nothingness and meaninglessness.

Nihilism is a lack of positive faith and the absences of some higher goal.