Nihilistic Violent Extremism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilistic_violent_extremism

23•doener•1h ago

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klez•57m ago

I always appreciate being one of the day's 10,000 lucky fews, but why is this here? Did I miss something horrible that happened earlier today?

bossyTeacher•52m ago

HN is pretty nihilistic imo. Tons of people on here fit the stereotypical lonely nerdy techie to the T.

Antibabelic•43m ago

That's not my experience. A lot of people on HN seem to be concerned (performatively or not) with things like ethics, altruism and "making the world a better place", whatever that means.

i_am_a_peasant•32m ago

I think most people on HN are just regular joes and there’s a strange expectation that most people in tech are on the spectrum or something. not that there’s anything wrong with that

krapp•20m ago

You have to be something other than a "regular joe" to even know that HN exists, much less want to hang out here. This forum was designed to be repellent to any but a very specific kind of technically minded "good hacker" personality, as defined by pg. The kind of person who cares about "information density," eschews design and UX as frivolous and prefers only "technical" topics is likely not neurotypical.

And yes many people in tech are on the spectrum. I suspect that much of what's dysfunctional with SV and tech culture is the result of raising a generation of socially awkward neurodivergent kids on 4chan and making them millionaires before their frontal lobes have even fully developed. That necessarily bleeds into HN and becomes normalized within the culture as performative cynicism, misanthropy and toxicity.

bossyTeacher•1m ago

> I suspect that much of what's dysfunctional with SV and tech culture is the result of raising a generation of socially awkward neurodivergent kids on 4chan and making them millionaires before their frontal lobes have even fully developed

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arcxi•23m ago

It's exactly concerns like these that could drive people into loneliness and nihilism, when constant disappointment with a lack of care from society turns into hatred and despair.

bell-cot•51m ago

Especially in modern online culture, with its oft-unhealthy obsession with ideology, performative behaviors, and political identities, one should recognize that there's a wide gray spectrum here - from someone who is "purely" an NVE, to people superficially adopting the appearances of various groups and ideologies, to people who may "obviously" be exemplary members or adherents to a group or ideology...but their underlying motives are all-too-clearly to articulate/fuel/inspire/justify/support their NVE condition.

Related concept: Salad Bar Extremism

api•43m ago

I've often observed that if you take an angry fanatical ideologue and scratch, you often find a nihilist. The ideology is just a medium for the anger. The anger is the fundamental thing. There's a lot of people who seem to be really angry right now.

Part of it is legit, I think. There are legit things to be angry about, though they differ depending on where you live in the world.

Part of it is an addiction. Anger releases some powerful brain chemicals, and it can be addictive.

i_am_a_peasant•30m ago

Well put tbh

wasmainiac•47m ago

"They were nihilists, man. They kept saying they believe in nothing." - The Big Lebowski

RobotToaster•44m ago

Reminds me of what is called in China "revenge against society"

deafpolygon•38m ago

A bit of a code-word for "anything that doesn’t fit into our own world-view". I see this phrase tossed around right-wing circles quite a bit, and it should be regarded carefully.

josefritzishere•2m ago

It's hard to beleive this is even real. I understand agnosticism, and atheism but the absence of a beleif system doesn't feel particularly motivating.

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