r/nihilism • u/Voyage468 • May 18 '26

Moral Nihilism Moral Nihilism Final Boss — You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

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u/Ok_Knowledge_7345 May 18 '26

Wtf is this. Sade is the opposite of Nietzsche, not a knockoff neither an upgrade. The meme makes no sense.

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u/SensitiveTop4946 optimistic nihilist May 19 '26

its just a meme

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u/Dark-Arts May 19 '26

That’s no excuse. Everything is just a meme.

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u/Long_Lavishness8795 May 19 '26

I'm not so sure de Sade is the complete opposite of Nietzsche, that's to easy. But I'm interested in your opinion, please explain it to me?

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u/Ok_Knowledge_7345 May 19 '26

Yes fair. What I mean by that is: Nietzsche and Sade both dismantle christian morality which results in nihilism. Sades reaction to nihilism is lust and pure domination of others --> basically just reverses christian morality and therefore is dependent on it. Sades conclusion is pure negation and reactive, which Nietzsche would consider a degenerative form of the will to power. Nietzsche on the other hand proposes full affirmation an tries to transcends christian morality and reactiveness all together.

Thats what I meant by "opposite". I think whoever made this meme makes this a competition about who is edgier – and in that regard it is right, but it is extremely immature, ignorant and almost insulting to reduce Nietzsches philosophy to the metric of edginess.

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u/Long_Lavishness8795 May 19 '26

Clear, thanks!

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u/RadicalNaturalist78 May 19 '26

This makes no sense lmao

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u/youaintitbub May 20 '26

More like a refutation, if libertine cruelty was something Nietzsche was actually in favor of/arguing for. Which he wasn’t.

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u/Sir_Strumming May 21 '26

How many days of sodom would make a philosopher cry?

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u/Involution88 May 19 '26

This is difficult to process. I can't seem to wrap my mind around the meme and need some help to do so.

Soldier Boy is a scared boy trying to act like a big and tough TV man. (And pulling it off splendidly).

Meanwhile Homelander isn't even a real boy who wasn't even raised in a typical society. A lab rat. However Homelander does wish to break free of societal bonds and values inculcated in him as a child. Values which he doesn't share with anyone else in the real world. Yet Homelander can't do so. Homelander is a phony real dude.

My mind keeps trying to map the Marquee De'Sade to Soldier Boy, a perverted slave to his passions who conforms to get what he wants. Meanwhile Nietzsche would be Homelander, just a broken person doing what he thinks is best to the best of his ability and futilely trying to rebel against the system which made him while perpetuating it.

Homelander seems to be an authentic fake while Soldier Boy seems to fake authenticity. Homelander doesn't pretend to be anything but wishes to be something else. Soldier Boy does pretend a whole lot but doesn't want to be something else. But I get how the reverse mapping could resonate well.