Quote:His perspective is the penultimate of nihilism, there is nothing that means anything. Everything we do has no meaning only raw biological purpose. That belief creates dissonance in his brain when he tries to reconcile that belief with his concepts of good and evil, concepts that exist independent of the world he thinks is reality.

 

I see it more as egocentricism.  The new faux intellectuals believe they are some sort of gods among men, they are the supreme and that there can't be any higher order than themselves.  No perspective, no humility.  Only false self pride in the flawed belief that they know more or better than others, when so much of what they think they know isn't even true.

 

Yet, stand on such shifting, unstable sand they completely loose historical perspective, and overlook even the most basic of concepts (such as the sun being our world's thermometer.)

 

Cliffs notes education without a proper foundation of knowledge, and no real world experience.  A nearly complete detachment from reality.

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