So, you are afflicted by the poison of nihilism, after all. You say that, ultimately, we live thinking about ‘I’? And that that’s okay? What a wretched way of thinking! PHILOSOPHER: It is not nihilism at all. Rather, it’s the opposite. When one seeks recognition from others, and concerns oneself only with how one is judged by others, in the end, one is living other people’s lives.