Nihilism

"...Nihilism or pessimism. That there might not be a purpose to things, or to your life, or to our existence, or to the cosmos. There might not be a order to things we might not be here for a reason.This all might be purely arbitrary and an accident that there's no inherent meaning to anything that it just doesn't matter..."

In the podcast Eugene Thacker wrote a book called "In The Dust of This Planet" which he didn't believe would catch anyone’s attention since he writes for "nobody to read." But his book did the opposite he began seeing it in clothing of famous celebrities. In this book he speaks of the "end of the world" in a different aspect known as Nihilism. In the quote I chose he explains that Nihilism is basically a pessimist, in other words you believe there is no meaning in life. I believe that many things in society portray this nihilism. There are many songs, movies, clothes, poster, etc. that portray this idea of nihilism. Our society is filled with these "pessimist" they are what keep religions going. Many teenagers believe that there is no god. They do not know what their purpose in life is, but its all because of the idea in their head that "there is no god" "theres no proof that a god ever existed." Also many of our music that we listen to now, mainly rap songs portray an idea of nihilism. We all have listened to at least one rap song that makes us rethink what they're really trying to say behind the dark lines. Our society portrays many of these things all around making nihilism still a current thing which shouldn't be because we all have a purpose in life.