Phrohm Wickypaedophile.

Nihilism, Self-consistency, and Paradox

Nihilism is often described as a belief in the nonexistence of truth. In its more extreme forms, such a belief is difficult to justify, because it contains a variation on the liar paradox: if it is true that truth does not exist, the statement "truth does not exist" is itself a truth, therefore showing itself to be inconsistent. A formally identical criticism has been leveled against relativism and the verifiability theory of meaning of logical positivism.

A more sophisticated interpretation of the claim might be that while truth may exist, it is inaccessible in practice, but this leaves open the problem of how the nihilist has accessed it. It may be a reasonable reply that the nihilist has not accessed truth directly, but has come to the conclusion, based on past experience, that truth is ultimately unattainable within the confines of human circumstance. Thus, since nihilists believe they have learned that truth cannot be attained in this life, they look upon the activities of those rigorously seeking truth as futile. However, this interpretation is open to the same criticism as above, since, barring mystical revelation, the only way the "truth" of nihilism can have been learned is from within the confines of human experience. An attempt at reconciliation may be made in the following way: I have logically deduced that I cannot obtain absolute truth (as opposed to logical truth) with logic. Thus, from the confines of human experience, I am convinced (by logical reasoning) that I cannot obtain absolute truth. The nihilist, then, cannot profess to know something absolute, but he can say that, in terms of the human method of problem solving (logical reasoning), absolute truth cannot be obtained by human logic.

Yes, man makes anything into anything. I will not be having a career in art because it simply lacks the depth that a 'depressing' job could bring. This stark view of the working world is a result of wanting to see millions of people hang for watching Big Brother instead giving their attention to global somethingismness.

Art history deserves big satire but satire is stupid crap stupid, even if 'genius' Peter 'miserable pissed to death smart-arse' Cook make lots of it. He was very funny and died. None of this matters, remember, none of us matter, remember, none of what we say matters, remember, we can have so much fun, remember. I think that I shall do something new later this week.

Smug, smug, wealthy cock, smug. Niiyaht.