As far as I can tell the message of the movie is "consumerism is bad because it's emasculating and feminizing, real liberation can be found in ruthless hierarchies of masculine violence"
The only person I know who likes it IRL also has a tendency to complain about the "pussification of modern men"
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Nihilists are some of the most boring people I’ve ever met. It’s like “okay i get it, you believe in nothing, what’s your credit card number again? okay thanks, yeah the trust fund life is hard i know”
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tryhard is a perf definition. it’s baby’s first ideology and pretty much the only people I see into it are extremely privileged, so almost universally boring
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if you believe nothing matters, then all the stolen wealth you inherited is okay
“fReE WiLL iS aN iLluSiOn” is such a perf screening statement for guys to avoid at a party 10/10 chance they’re a predator
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oh my god that comic
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The camus take you posted right there is basically what I came to after doing a ton of acid and having a year in existential crisis lol. I read about absurdist thought and camus and it really spoke to me at the time. I think absurdism is pretty compatible with communist thought though
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Nihilism gets a bad rap, but in a lot of ways I think it meshes well with a material understanding of the world. "Institutions are not sacred," "society's morals (such as the inviolability of private property) are subjective beliefs, not uncontestable universal truths" and "the course of society is determined by who is able to take and wield power" are all pretty nihilistic, but they also align pretty well with communist thinking and are powerful motivators for change.
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