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minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·4 months agoExistentialism doesn’t necessarily claim that nothing matters, so yours sounds more like optimistic nihilism, which is very similar if not identical to absurdism.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 months agoThanks for pointing that out. I was trying to be concise and keep in style with the OP, but I may have gone overboard there.
minus-squareZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoI would probably label myself an optimistic nihilist, and I’m one of the main people spreading such ideas right now.
Existentialism doesn’t necessarily claim that nothing matters, so yours sounds more like optimistic nihilism, which is very similar if not identical to absurdism.
Thanks for pointing that out. I was trying to be concise and keep in style with the OP, but I may have gone overboard there.
I would probably label myself an optimistic nihilist, and I’m one of the main people spreading such ideas right now.