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The nihilist is one who follows the consequences of abandonment in a disenchanted world in a particular way: they bemoan (or celebrate) the loss of centre, guarantor, the moral compass, and single source, origin, and final resting place.
Yet, they don’t usually bemoan (or celebrate) the loss of the One, for if they acknowledged this loss, they’d be closer to my position. They say, ‘now there is no meaning!’ as though there’s a void. But this black hole, around which all orients — this is the shadow of the One. The gravity or gravitas of the nihilist’s longing plunges them into orbiting the One, for the One draws them in. They oscillate between meaninglessness, and auto-production or practically-oriented meaning.
But with the loss of the One, there’s no central spot that would or could ever bestow meaning (objective or subjective — in either case, centring and privileging humans). Meaning emerges from particular things in their worlds in communication with other things in their worlds.
The nihilist emerges from a particular historical, onto-theological trajectory.