II.2 Neurotic Nihilism: Predatory Valor

Like Anarchism, Neurotic Nihilism is more of a stepping stone. Unlike anarchism, it is not intended as the end-all, it is intended as the end to the end-all’s. Pointlessly pointless. How long the overall concept can be in enactment I am unsure, it is self-sustaining, as it is me, so it lasts as long as it does in that. Neurotic Nihilism is not the foundations. Foundations lead to fundamentalism, which is in itself Neurotic Nihilism at a Mundane Extreme. 

Encapsulated by terror management theory, it’s similar to the Predator characterized in the new Badlands installment in the franchise. Predator: Badlands is actually an excellent example of this in film. Deck, the Predator, in his quest for achieving his cloak and place in the clan (that doesn’t even want him in reality), was a narrow drive. There wasn’t anything to it aside a brute. The ideal in this is pure: kill or be killed, and seek so out. Fighting for the honor of not dying. The honor, in any end is in the dirt here. Characterized in the films, the Predator is not innately a mindless monster, it has intellect. It understands other creatures. 

Thia, an android in the film states to this matter in that, it is sensitivity which allows us to understand other creatures. Resultingly, this fundamentally impaired the idea of individual brute force over the alien environments, which nearly led to Deck’s death repeatedly. 

It’s Valhalla with self-fulfilling valor. 

A valor-less Valhalla, the deeds are done for the deaths. Getting embodied in the concept of Mortality Salience and explained through Terror Management Theory, the perception of death not as a finality but elevating of life in some way; the perceived reward is more than in practice. Memory fades and brains decay, all we do is best delay. 

Cosmic joy-buzzer it is. 

For more on Neurotic Nihilism, see:

I- Neurotic Nihilism (zine, first issue) 

II- What is Neurotic Nihilism?