Counterintuitive Facts (97): If Life Has No Meaning, That's Actually Great
PremiumOptimistic Nihilism: The universe doesn't care about you, means you can define yourself
I. We spent 96 articles telling you various cruel truths: You're a slave to genes. You're a meat chicken for memes. Your free will is illusion. Your brain deceives you. Your civilization will be destroyed. The universe will heat death. Everything ultimately returns to nothing. This is Nihilism.
II. Nihilism usually makes people depressed. "If nothing has meaning, why live?" "If I can't control anything, why try?" This is nihilism's dark side.
III. But German science channel Kurzgesagt proposed a completely new perspective: Optimistic Nihilism. It flips nihilism over. Precisely because "there's no preset meaning," you gain ultimate freedom.
IV. If God exists and decreed life's meaning is "redemption." Then you must live your whole life in guilt.
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