So we decided to put together a little something for those of you with a darker sense of humor and came across the Facebook page ‘Nihilist Memes’ as well as a subreddit of the same name. Below you will find a collection of their most popular posts. But Tracy Llanera, who is a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney and assistant research professor at the University of Connecticut, is still passionate about nihilism and believes it’s very misunderstood. The philosophers’ case depends on separating the premise that life has no cosmic meaning from the many negative conclusions people tend to draw as a result. But Llanera finds no compelling logical connection between nihilism and antisocial behavior or a choice to waste one’s life on trivial, unrewarding obsessions. Llanera hears often from students that they consider themselves “not religious, but spiritual,” a description she personally believes can be concerning. “It strikes me that people are always looking for something to hold onto — tarot cards, the luck of the stars. I think [that’s] being used to fight against this threat that life will become meaningless,” Llanera said. “The problem is egotism,” Llanera said, “our attitudes of wanting to have an authority controlling and giving us answers, rather than being responsible for our own lives.” Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
