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the skeptical enterprise is being used to silence skeptics. Disrespect for

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

the rigorous challenging of our own beliefs and assumptions the only logical route to progress? This may sound scary and self-destructive. But it’s actually quite the opposite. It’s not only the safer option, it’s liberating as well.

Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

I believe in hope as an act of defiance, or rather as the foundation for an ongoing series of acts of defiance,

Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

Not caring what other people think and not linking my creativity to my being liked — these are non-negotiables.

Anna Fusco • Devastate Me, Baby

Life has gotten very chaotic incredibly quickly. It has become increasingly difficult to parse anything from the static. People started coping with this lack of meaning through a kind of ironic detachment (which is very much still around), but it has matured into a pervasive cultural apathy, a permeating numbness. This isn’t nihilism per se. (Even ... See more

Catherine Shannon • Everyone Is Numbing Out

We counter existential dread with optimistic nihilism.

Kurzgesagt • Optimistic Nihilism

A prayer. Sure, one prayer: for sentimental reasons. Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche? Ah, such a book!

John Fante • Ask the Dust

The next step into mystical states carries us into a realm that public opinion and ethical philosophy have long since branded as pathological, though private practice and certain lyrical strains of poetry seem still to bear witness to its ideality

Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

In the end, I only believe in Siddhartha Gautama and Bertrand Russell. And although I’ve published many things indicating otherwise, I believe the only truly original artists of the last one hundred odd years are Vladimir Nabokov and Patricia Highsmith.