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    Beautiful Nihilism: An Unconventional Conservative's Collection of Essays & Nihilistic Philosophies
    Beautiful Nihilism: An Unconventional Conservative's Collection of Essays & Nihilistic Philosophies
    Beautiful Nihilism: An Unconventional Conservative's Collection of Essays & Nihilistic Philosophies
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    Beautiful Nihilism: An Unconventional Conservative's Collection of Essays & Nihilistic Philosophies

    By Kevin Klix

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    Insight into the paradox of life's meaningless external world, how human reasoning shapes and drives us into developing subjective moral codes, and even understanding the essence of mankind's collective human consciousness.

    Beautiful Nihilism is not only political and philosophical commentary on Nihilism's principals, but also how it could possibly be utilized to better grasp society's seemingly unanswerable mysteries surrounding our very existence.

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    PublisherKlix Artwork Ltd.
    Release dateSep 8, 2017
    ISBN9781540123442
    Beautiful Nihilism: An Unconventional Conservative's Collection of Essays & Nihilistic Philosophies

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      Disappointing. Was looking forward to an insightful exploration of the philosophy of nihilism but got this instead. Narrative voice is overly defensive and quickly becomes unbearable.

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    Beautiful Nihilism - Kevin Klix

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    Insight into the paradox of life’s meaningless external world, how human reasoning shapes and drives us into developing subjective moral codes, and even understanding the essence of mankind’s collective human consciousness. Beautiful Nihilism is not only political and philosophical commentary on Nihilism’s principals but also how it could possibly be utilized to better grasp society’s seemingly unanswerable mysteries surrounding our very existence.

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    Beautiful Nihilism

    An Unconventional Conservative's Collection of Essays & Nihilistic Philosophies

    Kevin Klix

    BEAUTIFUL NIHILISM: AN UNCONVENTIONAL CONSERVATIVE'S COLLECTION OF ESSAYS & NIHILISTIC PHILOSOPHIES. Copyright © 2017 by Kevin Klix. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission from the author. For information about permission to reproduce sections from this book, email to Permissions, Kevin Klix, at kevinklix@yahoo.com. 

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    Designed by Kevin Klix

    Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Date is available upon request.

    ISBN (pbk): 978-1-9760477-7-0

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    for Scott Casey Geller

    Publisher’s Note:

    The views expressed in this book are completely the opinion of the author and shouldn’t be construed as absolute fact. Everything said within these pages has been taken from multiple articles and sources read and/or have been personally or not personally experienced by the author over the years that cannot be sited with precise accuracy, factual or not. This being known, a minute effort has been made by the author to fact-check information contained in the book’s contents; but again, the final verdict is that these essays are entirely opinionated, entirely commentary, and for that almost no references or notes are included within these pages. Your understanding is greatly appreciated.

    Contents

    Foreword

    The Paradox Called Living

    Religious Nihilism

    Progress’s Effects on Morality

    Understanding Religion

    Children vs. Adults

    Wealth vs. Poverty

    Racism in Society

    The Gender Wars

    Conflicts of Sexuality

    The Nihilistic Environment

    Hatred of Law Enforcement

    Loneliness

    The Glamour of Fame

    Dreams and Subconsciousness

    Afterword

    Suggested Reading

    Foreword

    Part of the reason why I decided to write this book is because the entire concept of Nihilism is completely seen in a way of disdain, almost mockingly. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on any subject, but I at least want to give the world my personal take on Nihilism, defending it and giving others the mindset behind it; and being as I chose the ironic title of this collection of essays as Beautiful Nihilism, I know the entire meaning of those two words put together side-by-side is collectively seen as an oxymoron. I’m here to, in some way, shape, or form, change that view, even if only slightly and present a case in its defense.

    Some friends of mine have teased me about viewing life as not having any meaning. They tell me that I’m cynical, that I have no morals — but I’m here to give reasons as to why I absolutely do have idealistic morals. The entire concept of Nihilism is seen as being as inhumane as possible and without any regard for feelings, purpose, or for life itself. The main issue is that most don’t understand that Nihilism, yes, says that life has no inherent purpose, but we, the creatures within life, struggle to find that purpose or meaning.

    That’s the main understanding of nihilism that people don’t understand. It’s the fact that most who are into Nihilism or even Existentialism know that they are a human-being and they are torn between knowing that objectively the world around them does not have any meaning, and knowing that they, the individual, are the ones that have the inherent itch to create one regardless. That’s the philosophy. But the reason for this beauty is because it frees you completely.

    If one goes through life thinking that they need x, y, and z, and they either don’t get it, aren’t born with it, something holds them back, or it’s just a fantastically impossible goal not tied with reality, they will find themselves living a life of pure dread; and, too, if they do achieve the goal, often one asks the question: Okay, what do I do now? The cycle continues.

    But what about the person who does not care about meaning? Often others envision the person as laying in bed all day, looking up at the ceiling, depressed beyond all reason. What I see, however, is a person who is walking around, fascinated by the plants, the air, other humans, the sky, this ball of matter they live on spinning unimaginably fast in space in a dark void of nothingness. And a ball of hot light giving us energy. We take for granted that if that ball of light burns out, or if this ball we live on stops rotating, or if anything affects the natural processes that we need in order to survive, all meaning is rendered meaningless.

    This is both a scary and sobering thought, but it makes you appreciate things more. It makes you understand that your job goals, your money in your pocket, your arguments with people, you loving things, you getting food, you having passions, are so very fragile and are nothing but an illusion that your consciousness creates. When a nihilistic onlooker views this and sees others living their lives in this way, it is a much clearer world and puts everything into perspective. That, my friends, is beautiful.

    To fully understand the world you live on and to stop asking the question of how life started, why we are here, what we are, what you are, or literally any question that humans have pondered since the start of their existence, is the most freeing purge of an idea possible, I think. You look at a flower, for example, and see what it is: beautiful. Obviously, this takes some level of optimism, of course, but when someone is truly carefree and has no thought in their mind of meaning and lets go of their ego, all things seem to fall into place.

    That’s the goal in this book I wanted to address to the world. If that isn’t for you, I will not be offended if you put this book down, stop reading these first few pages, and you just live your life exactly how you were before ever turning these pages. I understand more than you know. But if you are curious about understanding the rabbit hole, then come aboard. . . . Also, there is a lot of commentaries, social issues, and politics within these pages that I find to be fascinating because they’re framed with the idea in mind of a meaningless world. I will show you my personal spin on them. Enjoy.

    — K.K.

    West Palm Beach, Florida

    July 31, 2017

    CHAPTER ONE

    The Paradox Called Living

    I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

     — Charles Bukowski

    If I told you that I know the true answer to the beginning of life, would you allow me to spew that piece of information to you? Would you not want to know? or would you say my claim is nonsense and can never, ever truly be possible? You would most-likely be both right and wrong — but I frankly don’t blame you in all three instances.

    You may say to yourself, How arrogant of this essayist to suggest that he knows such a completely outlandish answer! How pretentious! And hey, I don’t particularly blame you, but it’s actually quite simpler than that. Here, let me explain: We have this existing concept called nominal world. It’s the idea of an external universe or existence without life, the outside life from any mind; henceforth, inanimate objects, planets, stardust, dark matter, all crazy, out-there concepts balled up into one that you have heard a million, zillion times before in the scientific community. That, my friends, cannot be answered on how that started because that is not considered Life. What is life then? Let’s define it.

    Life, to me, is a generation of bio-organisms that function on a path of both survival and making copies of itself. That is their only purpose, and that, my friends, is what every single living creature you have ever come across’s goal is in life: your mother, father, your dog, your boss, your long-lost uncle Jeffrey, plants, whoever it is or whatever it is has that one very simple goal. Though it is a superficial goal that nobody in their right mind would directly identify with, it is the ultimate reason for most motives in life; that, along with

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