Nihilism: Impact on Freedom, Society, Love, and Modern Life
The Path of Nihilism
On the Word Freedom
Three kinds of freedom have been considered:
- Natural Liberty: Linked with nature and its events.
- Political or Social Freedom: Related to the external environment in which man develops.
- Personal Freedom: Autonomy, independence, to do what you want in an orderly manner and direct your steps.
Freedom must pursue good and happiness.
A difference exists between the freedom of a liberal and, in turn, the consequences of being liberal:
- Policy: A liberal state is one that has a non-hierarchical structure or privileges. The town regulates and requires its representatives.
- Morality: Does not consider any substantive standard of conduct, as all things are entirely individual and subjective.
What is Permissible?
Permissiveness means that one has no prohibitions, forbidden territory, or impediments that curb, except the outer coordinates of civic laws.
The result of permissiveness is nihilism since man is empty. Light is not able to decide exactly what he wants. In turn, it is related to subjectivism, with which man seeks immediate benefit. With this comes the conclusion that truth is what is useful and practical, so nothing is absolute or definitive; everything is relative (relativism). With these ideas, we return to subjectivism: everything is relative, depending on the purpose, and everything is fine, depending on the eye of the beholder.
Relativism and Skepticism
Relativism leads to skepticism. According to relativism, truth is something changing. According to the skeptical, truth is something unattainable for humans. This leads to nihilism, with a pessimistic man who thinks that what most say is the truth.
Fun Society
Fashion at the Heart of Behavior
The “light” man is often seen in higher socioeconomic levels, the media, and consequently, the lower-middle resonant influence. Gossip magazines are the main transmitters.
The “light” man is frivolous and has little interest in culture since he is only interested in what has to do with his professional life.
The Disease of Plenty
Abundance gives man “light” freedoms, although not directly related to money, he feels the power.
He spends his life traveling, entertaining himself in any little matter, and having fun, without further claims. “Having all that is material minimizes the spiritual.”
Sexuality Light
Definition of Human Love
The “light” man does not really know what love is. He mistakes it for passion, and because of his characteristics, he cannot know what love is. He is not able to maintain a stable relationship; it’s all superficial.
Love: It is the feeling of approval and affirmation of the other, a sense of search and desire to be with another person.
To Love: You wish the best for a person, look for it, treat it as an exception, giving the best of us.
Happiness is impossible without love.
Sexual Intercourse Without Love
The aim of love is the good that can be of three types:
- Useful good from a practical standpoint.
- Pleasant good gives us pleasure that we perceive through the satisfaction that we produce.
- Good moral character has goodness in itself and points to the best human evolution.
The “light” man tends to have sex without love, having no other object than pleasure. This implies using the other, taking advantage of it, something material, without compromise.
Sexuality Empty and Aimless
The abundance of sex around man is intended to deceive him by convincing him that sex and love are what give a material point of view and dehumanize.
Significant value is lost, such as love, and left in its place a vacuum that only seeks satisfaction of the most basic, animalistic desires.
The Three Faces of Sex
In the sexual act with true love, there are three essential ingredients: physical, psychological, and spiritual. Both give and receive love; it is a combination of reciprocity.
But in the “light” man, it is only a burst of fleeting pleasure.
Bondage and Slavery of the Free World
He comes from a “light” gray area, a path without a goal, a man for whom it is more important to achieve the desired speed than the goal itself. This has further consequences:
- Addiction to sex. Pornography.
- Drug Addiction.
- Gambling Addiction.
- Addiction to sedatives.
- Addiction to zapping.
- Addiction to work.
- Addiction to a psychotherapist.
- Anorexia – Bulimia.
These evasions act as anxiolytics for a persona non grata and a great emptiness.
The Syndrome of Remote Control (Zapping)
Television as Intellectual Nourishment
Television has greatly expanded, creating addiction. For him, it is all his intellectual food. It causes a little man to worship, be passive, and given to the easiest.
Added to this is a new phenomenon: the possibility of changing the entertainment channel, in turn, interested in everything and anything. This includes:
- A new form of consumption.
- An interest in everything and nothing, image dissatisfaction, trying to own everything at once.
- Bulimia news.
- A sedative effect.
- The law of least effort. No act of will.
Psychology of Zapping
It is more common in men than in women. It becomes chronic, and with this comes “trash” television.
This being has hardened and is no longer impacted by ads, so subliminal language emerges.
Culture of Boredom
It is a consequence of information overload that adds nothing to the person. In recent years, “psychological consumption” has begun to succeed, prompted increasingly by horoscopes, palmistry, and the psychiatrist’s opinion. He uses this for his own personal satisfaction.
Because of the role of television in entertaining and forgetting problems, people are “stuck” to the TV. It is a being devoid of culture that is moved by the indifference caused by the saturation of antagonism.
Visual Relativism
The consumer partakes in zapping everything and does not identify with anything. He wants to see everything, but there are no arrests. He is driven by the current. But he should draw his own ideas.