Nihilism,

 

Since we don’t know anything about the great difference between Disembodied Language (DL) and Embodied Language (EL), we are incapable of viewing nihilism, as deriving from our usual way of talking, DL, which sets the stage for how we deal with language and view reality. Surely, nihilism is defined – by our DL, which has never been properly addressed – as the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. Only if our insensitive DL is stopped – so we can have ongoing EL – can we truly communicate and agree on values.

 

Nihilism comes from Latin, nothing at all; nil is a contraction of nihil or nihilum, nothing, not at all; ni, not + hilum, small thing, triffle; the Latin phrase nil desperandum, loosely, never give up, literally means, nothing is to be despaired of. In current times, however, it is mostly associated with extreme pessimism or radical skepticism, which basically condemns everything. Nihilistic philosophy is a family of views, that inevitably derives from our common, dissociative DL, which, sooner or later, makes us ignore and abandon, generally accepted or fundamental aspects about human existence, such as knowledge, morality and meaning. Thus, in DL, we never put our money where our mouth is.

 

Friedrich Nietzsche spoke and wrote elaborately about the crisis in nihilism, in Western culture. Although he didn’t know about the difference between DL and EL, he pointed out two central concepts: 1) the destruction of higher values, and 2) opposition to the affirmation of life. It is interesting, how these two concepts relate to the DL/EL distinction. We don’t want to know, that all our so-called higher values are based on our almost permanent involvement in DL. We can only have EL, once our DL – which isn’t life affirming – is stopped, that is, if we suspend these higher values. DL and EL are mutually exclusive. Certainly, Nietzsche was not a nihilist, as he was, like the ancient Greeks, celebrating the beauty of life, in spite of all the tragedies. I am sure, he would have loved to engage in EL.

 

Nietzsche’s views are in line with EL. He wrote in his famous book Will to Power: “Suppose that we said yes to a single moment, then we have not only said yes to ourselves, but to the whole of existence. For nothing stands alone, either in ourselves or in things; and if our soul did but once vibrate and resound with a chord of happiness, then all of eternity was necessary to bring forth this one occurrence—and in this single moment when we said yes, all of eternity was embraced, redeemed, justified and affirmed.” This quote illustrates how our EL reveals our Language Enlightenment (LE).

 

Like Nietzsche, I am not a nay-sayer of life, a harmful, a coward nihilist, who supports self-denial and negation. Left-Wing oriented people are more imprisoned by their DL than Right-Wing oriented people. To my knowledge, it hasn’t been stated by anyone, anywhere, because the difference between DL and EL isn’t known, but I say it emphatically: the infatuation, of Left-Wing Western politics, with Buddhism, Eastern or collectivistic thought or globalism, is outright nihilistic. While more and more people don’t attend church anymore, they give up on their own culture, but they unknowingly continue to believe in spiritual, idealistic nonsense, with an Eastern, communistic flavor.

 

Due to the overflow of my ongoing EL and my glorious LE, I am the ultimate yes-sayer. Only Right-Wing politics is pro-life and truly on the side of our freedom and happiness. Anyone who is trying to transcend their ego, by means of what is known as meditation, is, inadvertently, negating all language and communication – which, due to our DL, is wrongly referred to as mind – and is accepting a depressing, nihilistic, escapist’ view of life. The doctrine of nihilism has people believe, that holier-than-thou-mystical absorption is to be preferred over the presumed unreality of the seeming world, so that, the sense of worth of human personality is completely lost in some superstitious group-behavior.

 

Ultimately, nihilism always comes down to the power-trip of those, who try to change language, to make it serve their purpose. However, DL never serves any individual, as it doesn’t allow us our own authentic and unique self-expression. To the contrary, in DL, we all talk and behave the same, out of fear of being caught and punished, for not following the prescribed narrative. Yes, our DL is strictly scripted, repetitive and boring.

 

As long as we haven’t stopped our DL – so that we can have ongoing EL – we haven’t really looked into the abyss of nihilism. Of course, every reasonable human being can understand, that all of religion and politics is a big scam. DL has continued, because we have always competed with each other for power and access to resources. However, just as the earth is round and not flat, so too is EL genuine communication, but DL isn’t and never was. Nevertheless, our language of nihilism – DL – is catching up with us, as our technology shows our horrible behavior.

 

EL is a joyous affirmation of the importance of the conversations we have every day. It is the innocence and peacefulness of letting language take its course, by having faith in the sound of our own wellbeing. A new way of reasoning, emerges from ongoing EL, in which everything that was described by our DL, is reinterpreted and given a different meaning. Far from being nihilistic, this is a creative, blissful and knowledgeable act.

 

Nietzsche talked about the nihilism, which occurred due to disintegration of traditional morality in predominantly Christian Western  cultures. He correctly stated “God is dead”, but due to his own DL, he was never able to address and dissolve our tenacious belief in our inner deity, our self. His concept of Will to Power (1886) – the driving force of human behavior – still continued the fallacy and all catastrophic problems of our fanatic belief in a behavior-causing inner agent.

 

It is now 128 years later, and I write today, with my EL: our unintelligent, superstitious, disastrous belief in a non-existent inner entity, will certainly come to an end, once we stop our own DL. Of course, Nietzsche was right about the life-denying, nihilistic aspects of Christianity, but I should be praised more than him, for describing my  LE with my EL and letting the world know,  there never was any language inside of us.