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RE: Nihilism remedy for Anxiety? Is nihilism a viable remedy to anxiety and even conducive to success.
nihilism makes certain people rather pessimistic, there are better methods for dealing with anxiety for those kind of people, for example, plowing through the anxiety by simply acknowledging the existence of anxiety and locating the source of anxiety
Yeah, it's not for everybody but I'm not sure if nihilism was even the right word. One of the main things that made me like this idea was that many people who worry, myself included, already pick between those worries on different scales. We already have the ability to replace worries but we only replace them with other ones. The main idea I was trying to get across but maybe failed, is that we can strive to replace worries with the same system our brain already uses but we hijack it with nihilistic concepts to complete an end goal while also creating end goals in the process. The end result if everything works to theory, is actually really far from nihilism itself.
when you put it like that it does make a lot more sense to me, normally coming up with rational solutions for your problems to build a bridge to your end goal is the best way forward, and it reminds me a bit of thus spoke Zarathustra actually, but personally i always saw nihilism as a state of being stuck in the mud, basically running out of solutions to your problem, a bit defeatist, but I probably misunderstood nihilism maybe
That's a really good way to put it, this is mostly just rationalizing an imaginary bridge to take you further from anxiety. Plans, goals, something to latch on to, sometimes it's all someone needs. Now I haven't read Zarathustra but to me, nihilism has always been realizing that there wasn't a real problem in the first place, which ironically enough, sometimes leads to the most interesting solutions.