It didn’t used to be. At least for me and i don’t recall constantly seeing posts on social media about how lonely and sad everyone was or how to make friends. Now every other magazine article is about how lonely everyone is, nobody gets together, and gen Z doesn’t socialize, drink, or have sex.
Why is there such an epidemic of loneliness and why are people content to be lonely rather than socialize?
Why is so hard to connect? Because people having nothing in common anymore? I used to connect with people over books, movies, hobbies, etc. But now it feels increasingly hard to do that. Most folks I meet don’t care about any of that, they just mostly complain about their lives to you or go on political rants about how unfair the world is.
My friends and my dates no longer seem to watch films, or do much of anything other than spend time on social media? I dont’ use social media so I’m pretty ignorant of it all.
ontological and cosmic purpose lies entirely within yourself.
that’s why nihilistism is nothing more than egotism projecting infinitely into the world.
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These two paragraphs are blatantly clashing with each other.
If “purpose lies entirely within yourself”, a manner of thinking which is egocentric insofar it centers the purpose inside the person themselves,
then accusing nihilism (and cosmicism), which completely negates and refuses to belief in any kind of human purpose (nihil = “nothing”), of “egoist projection” is not just a misunderstanding of what nihilism is, not just a distortion of what it states, it’s a distortion of the very statement “purpose lies entirely within yourself”, which is a statement often said by optimistic people and, thus, the exact opposite from nihilism.
optimism and nihilism aren’t oppositional.
nihilism doesn’t exist. there is no ‘nothing’. hence why it collapses into solipsim, which is a projecting egotism that nothing exists other than the self.