1:10:53 I think for me, unlike typical corner types since I grew up in a completely secular household, the journey to nihilism was less of a rejection of any particular religious tradition, but more of tearing off the chains of the mythological American dream. Hitting bottom and letting go of those narratives was when I could finally accept myself and be genuine instead of wearing the mask and chasing the goals that others had constructed for me. As this was in the mid 2000s the rejection of religious thought as just another grand narrative all bound up with that particular American mythos that only leads to pointless wars and good people dying for no reason was a natural bridge over to "new" atheism at that time as well. Nailed it about the bridge between the East and West. The SMT theme of Order / Chaos is a good starting take on balance, but without another axis of alignment to determine and orient toward the good you're left with a somewhat flattened dualism. Even within the series you have examples of tyrannical order which is clearly evil coded, and a kind of flawed idealism within chaos. I think the philosophies of the East, particularly the Dao, deal much better with the role of the individual within order and chaos, and the philosophies of the west generally do better at identifying the good, but neither are complete without the other.
1:10:53 I think for me, unlike typical corner types since I grew up in a completely secular household, the journey to nihilism was less of a rejection of any particular religious tradition, but more of tearing off the chains of the mythological American dream. Hitting bottom and letting go of those narratives was when I could finally accept myself and be genuine instead of wearing the mask and chasing the goals that others had constructed for me. As this was in the mid 2000s the rejection of religious thought as just another grand narrative all bound up with that particular American mythos that only leads to pointless wars and good people dying for no reason was a natural bridge over to "new" atheism at that time as well.
Nailed it about the bridge between the East and West. The SMT theme of Order / Chaos is a good starting take on balance, but without another axis of alignment to determine and orient toward the good you're left with a somewhat flattened dualism. Even within the series you have examples of tyrannical order which is clearly evil coded, and a kind of flawed idealism within chaos. I think the philosophies of the East, particularly the Dao, deal much better with the role of the individual within order and chaos, and the philosophies of the west generally do better at identifying the good, but neither are complete without the other.
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