A nihilistic outlook

Back to Nietzsche. More specifically, back to his stance on nihilism and his wish to hasten its coming only so that he could also hasten its ultimate departure. This is an accurate outlook, but on the wrong subject. It is not nihilism that should be moved along, but life itself. Sort of. However, since life is the only substantial thing that we possess, it is something everybody is quite clingy to and does not like to speed along too much. Fair enough.

This being the case, it would be wise to follow this observation with another one, which can be summed up in a phrase. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. Thereby, nothing within life or one’s existence should be taken seriously. You really are insignificant, dispensable, and nobody will remember you witticism one hundred years down the line. To quote Jack Nicholson’s character in about Schmidt:

“Relatively soon, I will die. Maybe in 20 years, maybe tomorrow, it doesn’t matter. Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies too, it will be as though I never existed. What difference has my life made to anyone. None that I can think of. None at all.”

Take heed and listen. You mean nothing in the ultimate plan, which coincidentally does not exist. Nothing that you think is important, is. Despite life being shit, it doesn’t really matter so get comfortable bathing in your own aura of fuck-it.

On anger

When anger sets in, or one feels that a state of anger is necessary, it should be stoked with all the fuel available in order to make ensure that it burns out completely, and not leave any smoldering in the wake of the fire that will result in more burning later on.

Firstly, the necessity of anger must be clarified. Anger is never necessary as a stand-alone feature. No emotion is necessary by itself. In fact, emotions are quite the retardant to progress. Anger is only necessary to dispense of the underlying causes of the anger itself. Somewhat like an emotional cleansing – an abstract act of crying, if you will. Much like a bout of crying will reset, or neutralize your mood, so too will a furious episode of expression. However, anger is never useful as a tool in rhetoric. Ever.

When one does find himself in a mood of extreme frustration, and eventually anger, he should do his best to escalate that mood as much as possible, in a controlled manner. The anger must turn to rage, fury, wrath, a putrid emotion that is ineffably primitive. An emotion that confirms your murderous intentions against the scum that is anything that is human, anthropomorphic by extension, or whatever it is the anger is from. It usually is derived from human (in)action.

The reason for the escalation is the inherent humanness in people that become angered. We have only so much energy, and only so much of it can be used before a burnout occurs. Like a person that is confronted with something that petrifies them – they tremble, cry, scream, but inevitably hit a calm, because their bodies do not have any more energy to shake with – the anger will subside.

Nietzsche’s stance on Nihilism was that he wished to hasten its coming only so that he could also hasten its ultimate departure. This is much like my outlook on anger. The sooner it metaphorically burns out, the sooner calm is reinstated. The more violent the burning is, the better the chance that everything that can be fuel to the fire will burn out with it. As for the psychological aspect on the health of anger – that depends on the personality of the person in question.

On why a girl can never be perfect

 

In regard to the perfect girl that one devises for oneself in his dream. She can never be perfect even if she exists with all the characteristics that you would want her to have. This is because you as a person, are perpetually learning, and changing. Unless she is dynamic she cannot be perfect, because even the girl that supposedly was without flaw yesteryear might not be what you desire now. Furthermore, even if she is dynamic, she would need to be so in a perfectly congruent manner, aligned to your desires. There is, however, a catch. She must be so without your knowing. For it is clear that in some aspects of relations, the pursuit of a woman induces certain emotions – enjoyable emotions – that one does not find once he has her. This is due to the comfort of certainty, him knowing that she is his. If that perfect girl was so flawless that you lose any fear of losing her, you will become bored, because then, despite her dynamic nature, the relationship will become static, and plateau at a stagnation.

On the totality of things

Everything, when it is broken down into its constitutional parts, can be seen as being mostly superfluous, possibly descriptive or explanatory, and thus a verbosity. For instance, a non-fictional book that holds one or two key ideas, in order to be understood, must first introduce the various concepts that the ideas are based on, in order to enlighten the reader so that he may better understand the ideas at hand.

Some of these concepts may already be known, some may not be accepted, and some may be so elaborately expanded such that they become a bore and are no longer substantiation but rather act as a distraction from the key ideas. This is a tactic used by writers to lengthen their work, but this is discussed elsewhere.

This notion holds true not only for books,  but all phenomena. Everything is the sum of its parts, and therefore all parts – which in turn have their own parts – are subject to the judgment of the person experiencing them.

One problem is that, congruent to the theory that things are actually more than the sum of their parts – due to the augmented experience that one gets from a particular thing, they might either be blinded by the irrelevance of certain parts, or they may choose to accept them as part of the whole.

This becomes especially dangerous with rhetorically-based concepts such as a defined set of communication, as the rhetorician who knows that people will accept all the parts of an idea due to their agreement with its totality, will also accept skewed ideas falling within the constructs of that gestalt.

Conversely, it could be beneficial to consume a thing as a whole rather than breaking it down into its parts. This idea is applicable to subjects such as the arts, or people. The reason for this is twofold; the breakdown of an abstract device erodes the inspirational or motivational affect that it may hold – such as a piece of music. The second, and more important reason, is that the habitual behavior of breaking everything down will lead to a poisoned disposition wherein one cannot enjoy anything because of the constant critical and evaluative mindset they’d be in – together, in all probability, with a negative or pessimistic outlook on them.

As Nietzsche said, the superfluous is the enemy of necessity. When faced with an object, one wants to accomplish a goal from it – such as learning about the object, or at least understanding it. Naturally, this process is wanting to be done in the most streamlined of manners – one wants to learn about the thing itself, and not particularity about the complementary notions surrounding it. From this tendency, the process of selective attention begins. The learner will focus on the core ideas and generally skim through explanatory or side-notes.

A problem lies herein. Since the learner is just that, he cannot possibly know which information is a necessity or prerequisite to understanding, and which is not. Therefore, such exclusive retention can lead to temporary understanding – as because everything about the thing is not known and the probability of it being forgotten is thus higher – or never attaining a full understanding at all.

As mentioned, each part has its own particular fundamental constructs. This is why qualitative subjects should not be broken down and analysed. Even if a certain part of the whole may seem unnecessary, boring, or verbose, it too exists from the ideas forming it. Many of these minuscule ideas could be surprisingly interesting or enjoyable. They may even be inspirational. Therby, not skipping through parts of a whole in order to acquire only the essential, exposes one to the possibility of a barrage of intermittent inspiration.

These episodic musing then themselves become the fundamental constituents of a newly-developed inspired mood – which is exactly the point of an artistic piece. This too, perhaps, is even the key to the sustainability of relationships between people. Almost everybody, when viewed with scrupulous eyes, is immaterial and an inevitability of dullness once their character becomes understood. However, it could be that the sporadic actions or deviance in their character can lead to a slight unpredictability and therefore illicit joy in oneself enough for them to be tolerable.

On being shy

There is no place for shyness. Ever. It gets you nowhere and you come off as pathetic when you are shy. This goes for both sexes.

Shyness in this context refers to the fear of expression, either between two parties or more. This includes both strangers as well as friends and acquaintances. Shyness also refers to the inability to speak one’s mind or engage in any sort of action that may or may not be construed as aggressive or even defensive.

In essence, this type of personality is simple pathetic, redundant and makes for a waste of potential of anything productive that could possibly come out of a person. Men that are shy need to grow a pair and grow the fuck up. Women that are shy need to… do the equivalent of the male version.

There is just no time or reason for a giggling twat that holds his tongue while pussy-footing around an issue that is clearly an elephant in the room. It wastes everybody’s time, it makes the shy person look like they couldn’t hold their own in a fight against a comatose patient, and it upsets everyone’s stomachs.

Shy people are often taken advantage of because their aggressors know that their opponents won’t fight back. Shy people never get anywhere in life because they’re too afraid of failure of rejection. Shy people need to grow up or die. This suggestion is not made in an altruistic light, but rather from the point of view that if you actually know one or two of these spineless wonders, you will know that they will forever be crying their hearts out onto your shoulder because they need to tell someone just how pathetic they know they really are.

This also goes for those women that don’t want to reject/dump/tell-off that loser of a man because they can’t bare the thought of hurting his feelings (read: can’t bare to lose reputation points with anyone they know because they really, really do want to be loved by everybody). Grow the fuck up and start smelling the aphid-infested roses!