Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Dangers of Anesthesia

ni⋅hil⋅ism  /ˈnaɪəˌlɪzəm, ˈni-/

–noun

1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.


2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.

3. total and absolute destructiveness, esp. toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.


4. Philosophy.

a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.

b. nothingness or nonexistence.


5. (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.


6. a. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, esp. as an aspect of mystical experience.

b. nothingness or nonexistence.





In 1972, when I was a high school student, I could not understand why my english teacher was having us read works of this genre.

Deny the existence of reality????  What a load of crap.  Unfortunately, what I now realize is that I was being shown one of the drugs that would be used to anesthetize the American youth. What a stupid concept, I thought. Little did I realize that an entire culture would later embrace the mantras of "nothingness" , and  "I am nothing"  and "I do not exist"  and "There is no truth".

As if that is not sad enough on its own, the ugly little truth is that this is exactly the thinking that allows a society to take the position that they will not take any position at all, and thus is it that it allows foreign elements to quickly infect it and bring about its death. Not to put too fine a point on things, a society that will not stand FOR anything, will not stand AGAINST anything, and will be exterminated by those that do.

Make no mistake, my friends, those of Islam do not subscribe to the drivel of nihilism. Whether you like it or not, they do stand FOR something -  your destruction.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If there is no truth, then the assertion of the nihilist that there is no truth cannot be true.