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   Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 00:24:11 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

   Not only is "chaos" enjoying another bad-word upsurge as what every fascist is supposed to be causing or knowingly seeking, nihilism has started to as well, generally presented as leading to violence or defeatism or just plain not believing in liberalism. I wonder what Bakunin said:

   "Let us therefore trust the eternal spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion too!"

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     Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 00:24:11 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

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     Or Kropotkin:

     "Need we add, that after pitching into the wastepaper basket the teachings of their fathers, and burning all systems of morality, the nihilist youth developed in their midst a nucleus of moral customs, infinitely superior to anything that their fathers had practiced under the control of the “Gospel,” of the “Conscience,” of the “Categoric Imperative,” or of the “Recognized Advantage” of the utilitarian. "