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The History of Nihilism                                                                      by
                                                                                                                

Part of the Flipside Intelligent Agent System
The History of Nihilism
Wherein a Thwarted Man Decided to Eliminate an A Priori Condition of the Universe
In the year
this person
from
failed to
and so decided to destroy
and expounded his ideas in
and his fate was.
450 B.C.
Zeno
Elea (Italy)
Believe either side in any discussion / withstand any criticism of his homosexual lover Parmenides
Motion (replaced it with Dialectic)
Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion
Arrested and killed
25 B.C.
Epictetus
Phrygia
Escape Slavery / Be Happy
Disappointment / External Control (replacing it with limitation of desire to non-externals) ""Anytus and Meletus can kill me, but they can't harm me." The Discourses
Opened a School / Converted many to the Slavery of Stoicism.
20 A.D.
Jesus of Nazareth
Galilee
Make a Living as a Carpenter
Judaism / materialism / terrestrial rule / the integrity of the human identity.
The Bible
Crucified
1513
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florence
Thrive without Medici patronage
The classical justifications and methodology of imperial rule (replaced it with realpolitik)
The Prince
Imprisoned, tortured, became a writer.
1787 Immanuel Kant Prussia
Produce a theological-scientific basis for Autonomous Thought free of the dictates of External Authority. Reason / Objective Knowledge / Objective Good (replaced it with the "rule-based activity of 'synthesis'" and The Moral Imperative / Collective Good)
Critique of Pure Reason Old Age
1811
Nedd Ludd
England
Be Skilled
Machines
"* against the machine"
Died in Obscurity
1811
Georg Hegel
Germany
Unify the philosophical dilemmas of history, philosophy, culture.
Division (replaced it with Historicism, Dialectical Synthesis)
Philosophy of History Died of Cholera
1819
Arthur Schopenhauer
Poland
Find Salvation from Life, Desire, and Suffering
Intellect (replaced it with Will as the Foundation of the Senses)
The World as Will and Representation Repeatedly Sued by a Woman.
Died of Old Age
1843 Søren Kierkegaard Denmark Reconcile Christian Ethics and Human Emotion Alienation / Dread Christian+Atheist Codependency: The Pride of Theological Despair (replaced it with Existentialism) The Concept of Dread/
Either/Or  /
The Sickness Unto Death
Collapsed
1844
1847
Karl Marx

Be Jewish / Make Money
Religion, Money (replaced it with Communism)
Der Judenfrage /
The Communist Manifesto
Old Age / Died Poor
1849
Richard Wagner
Germany
Get Booking
Dresden, Pop Music
Judenthum in Der Musik / Die Walkure
Died In an Argument Over Infidelity
1873 Mikhail Bakunin Russia
Philosophize / Join the First International Government (replaced it with Anarchism)
Statism and Anarchy Died of Exhaustion
1878
Friedrich Nietzsche
Prussia
Stay Healthy / Distinguish Himself from Other Men
Man, Morality and Ethics, Christ (replaced it with Will and its Need to Negate)
Human, All-Too-Human / Beyond Good And Evil / The Will to Power
Brain Cancer
1887
Emma Goldman
Lithuania
Get a Date / Hold A Steady Job Manufacturing Corsets
Men / Presidents / Government / Factories / Money

Old Age
Died of a Stroke
1897
Sigismund Freud
Austria
Get Over his Psychosomatic Disorders / Incestuous Feelings
Religion /
The Integrity of Conscious Mind
(replaced it with Psychoanalysis)
The Interpretation of Dreams et. al.
Morphine Overdose / Assisted Suicide for Cancer
1900
Georg Simmel
Germany
Gain a seat at a German University even with strong recommendations /
Spend his whole inheritance
Intrinsic Value of Commodity
The Philosophy of Money
Liver Cancer
1921
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austria
Stably Combine: Philosophy, Principia Mathematica,  Aryan/Jewish Mischlinge, Catholic Judaism, Industrial Asceticism, Homosexuality
Philosophy, Language
Philosophical Investigations Prostate Cancer / Heart Attack Under Surgery
1922
Moritz Schlick
Austria
Grasp Wittgenstein
Synthetic a priori knowledge
(Mysticism / All Metaphysical Statements)
General Theory of Knowledge Shot by Nazi Jealous About a Woman
1925 Adolf Hitler Austria
Paint / Win WWI / Unify Germany Jews / Europe
Mein Kampf Shot Himself
1927
Werner Heisenberg
Germany
Simultaneously Assign Precise Numerical Values to Position and Momentum in Particles or Energy-Wave Particle Pairs
Certainty (below Planck's Constant)
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Kidnapped by USA
1931
Kurt Gödel
Austria-Hungary
Decide
Completeness (of All Consistent Axiomatic Formulations of Arithmetic) Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
Nervous Breakdown /
Schizophrenia /
Starved Self to Death
1934
Karl Popper
Austria
Verify the "Verifiability Principle" of Logical Positivism / Live in Austria
Induction,
Verifiability (Replaced it with Falsifiability) /
Totalitarianism
The Logic of Scientific Discovery /
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Old Age
1945
Henry Morgenthau
USA
Live in Germany
German Industry
Germany Is Our Problem
Old Age
1950
Alan Turing
England
Distinguish Machine from Human in Blind Test called an "Imitation Game"
Cognition (replaced it with Computation)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence Suicide by Poison Apple (Cyanide)
1978
Theodore Kaczynski
USA
Pass an Experimental CIA Stress Test Though a Genius / Socialize
Colleges / Research Labs
Industrial Society and Its Future
(The Unabomber Manifesto)
Jailed
1981
Jean Baudrillard
France
Ignore the con game /
Believe Marx was an Alternative to Capitalism and not a Reflection
Reality, Authenticity (replaced it with hyperreality and simulacra)
Simulacra and Simulation
Continues to Simulate a French Eigenvalue
1994
Mohammed Omar Afghanistan
Acheive Wahabbist Pashtun Nationalism
Mujahedeen, Western Civilization post 1200 A.D.
(replaced it with Sharia)
Al Qaeda
Blown to bits / Totured / Brainwashed in Cuba
2002
Flipside
USA
Endure waste /
Fit into most human spaces /
Withstand prolonged Fight or Flight stimulus /
Subserviate to persons or the ideas of persons /
Legally promote a recording
Altruism, Morality, Empathy, Collectivism, Deconstructionism,  Doubt, Media (replaced it with Argumatics, Assembly, Division, Control Theory, Modelling, Suprematism, Egoism, Will, Cyberfascism)
The People of Paradise /
The Flipside Intelligent Agent / Haters Magazine
Work In Progess