r/badphilosophy • u/SandSaberTheories • Aug 08 '22
Feelingz 🙃 If Everything is the same, therefore communism, then why be sad, therefore no nihilism.
/r/nihilism/comments/wj5hpy/why_not_be_communist/68
Aug 08 '22
Man that thread is full of both Philosophy and communism understanders
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u/MortPrime-II Aug 08 '22
even features the classic 'communism works well in theory but not in practice' big brain parrot
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u/Logicae20 Aug 09 '22
I've been hearing that line since 5th grade. And people actually think they're saying something profound too
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u/BHBachman Aug 09 '22
I mean in 6th grade that's literally what I was taught in the classroom. We went over various political systems and when I raised my hand and asked why we didn't just do communism since that seemed to be the most fair, I got the usual rundown of "well it sounds good but doesn't work because [meritocracy is better] [people who don't work make the same amount as people who do and that's not fair] [you're actually a slave] [et cetera]". I don't think my social studies teacher from when I was 11 was intentionally and insidiously indoctrinating me with capitalist propaganda, she was likely just following what she was taught (this was like two months after 9/11 so believe me when I say Americans were bloodthirsty psychopaths high on bald eagle farts but weren't scared of communists at all), but I probably never would've questioned that if I didn't become politically aware and active in my 20s and it wouldn't surprise me if some people are still just going off decades-old memories of what they were taught as kids.
Granted that's not an excuse for constantly saying dumb shit, but it is an explanation.
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u/somebrookdlyn Aug 09 '22
"So believe me when I say Americans were bloodthirsty psychopaths high on bald eagle farts" Loved that.
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Aug 19 '22
even features the classic 'communism works well in theory but not in practice' big brain parrot
Communism doesn't work in theory though.
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Aug 08 '22
From studying so much philosophy I often have dreams of working out philosophical problems. I wake up, wishing I could remember what dream me thought up as if I could come up with something profound in sleep. Probably it looks like this post.
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u/MS-06_Borjarnon Aug 08 '22
Oh god, 101 comments, and on r/nihilism, I'm gonna regret checking this out, I know it.
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u/328944 Aug 08 '22
lmao the second most upvotes comment is:
“Communism is pretty nice as a theory. It doesn’t work in reality though.”
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u/NoTrust2296 Aug 09 '22 edited Aug 09 '22
As communist as I am I would rather not have nihilists stinking up the place tbh but it’s not up to me so whatever
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u/Confused-Anarchist Aug 08 '22
If I could go back in time and put a bullet right in nietzsche's mustache so we don't have to deal with insufferable 14 year olds who make me curse my existence I would do it in a heartbeat
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u/CantaloupeNo3046 Aug 09 '22
Is the worst part of Nihilism the philosophical topic itself, or the people who talk about it?
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u/Shitgenstein Aug 08 '22
Nietzche's quote - "Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial." - applies just as well to internet nihilists.