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Chris Bray's avatar

tl;dr: What would constitute a meaningful counter-nihilism, a response that doesn't start with the emptiness of the non-thing being responded to?

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Gathering Goateggs's avatar

When I despair of anything ever making sense again...I disappear into my workshop. I take a cylinder off an engine and overhaul the valves. I sort a bucket of orphaned hardware. I disassemble a broken appliance with no intention of ever putting it back together again. More and more often there is a strong cocktail at my elbow and Warren Zevon blasting on the Bluetooth speakers. They can fight over the scraps of this civilization all they like. When they’re done I’ll still have an internal combustion engine and a tank of fuel. I did not envision myself riding into the sunset as a 65-year-old female Mad Max. Yet here we are.

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