The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness

by Wendy Syfret

I’m just a chunk of meat hurtling through space on a rock. Futile and meaningless.

ditto

Additionally, as a critic of organized religion (seriously, I can’t stress how anti-religion he was), Nietzsche was concerned over how existing ideas of reason and morality were fixated on what’s next. He didn’t believe this life, and our good behavior in it, should be driven by ideas of God or a long-term plan to get into some preferable afterlife—or a “true world,” as this heaven-like state was often referred to.

Sunny nihilism breaks away from the previous fixation on destruction by viewing pointlessness as a chance to breathe and think. Ultimately serving as a blank page, a chance to enjoy the moment, the present, the chaos, and the luck of being alive at all.

job interview knows they’re exhausting and repetitive dances of manners, buzzwords, rehearsed questions, and empty answers. No one is their true self in these spaces, and even if they were there’s little way of really knowing if the person in the room would be good in the job.