American Nihilist Underground Society

[Siegfried]

American Nihilist Underground Society

"Nihilism is the belief that nothing we perceive has inherent value other than what it actually is. When one achieves the mental discipline to put this into practice, one is able to find a new meaning in life and to understand many of the traditional and future values of humanity. This site exists to spread a small bit of sanity in a world that can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy."

I especially recommend the 6-part essay 'Love and Nihilism: An Integralist Primer' (Writings -> Nihilism).

[George]

Yes I like that one too, and people who like it might also like rosenoire dot something.

[Jack]

www.rosenoire.org is the address for Journal du Cercle de la Rose Noire. Great national anarchist and general metapolitical resources.

[Siegmund]

www.rosenoire.org is the address for Journal du Cercle de la Rose Noire. Great national anarchist and general metapolitical resources.

Thanks for the link! LOTS of worthwhile things there. I noticed that Constantin has a few of his poems posted as well.

[Siegmund]

This site exists to spread a small bit of sanity in a world that can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

I especially liked the definition of heroism in part ii of the essay you recommended. The third paragraph below is particularly apt:

Overcoming fear for individual survival and the desire for comfort in order to assert values upon the world is heroism. Combat provides a metaphor: suffering and death occur, but when the battle is over, the human ecosystem has changed, as the victor has greater power and the loser is vanquished. Something is decided, structurally, by that.

This applies however to any area of life. Parents sacrifice their time and money and energy so that they may have children; farmers do the same to raise crops and feed people; writers do the same to spread knowledge; lovers give to each other without concern that they be rewarded. This is heroism in action.

In an egalitarian time, where every individual is considered equally important, heroism is destroyed by making it slavery to the moral judgment of equality. It is no longer important to achieve something, in this view, but to save lives and not disrupt the personal pursuit of convenience. Thus "heroism" changes from assertion of order to a passive preservation of the existing construct, negating itself.

Incidentally, the essay is available as a pdf file here.