It's such a circle. Belief & hope good and normal things in themselves, when untenably grandiose and so only derivative of the truth and thus merely propositional as well, led to nihilism and vice versa or versa vica. You're right, then *nihilism which is raw, and thus more true in itself than the blinding and only derivative propositions of ideologues' half-truths, three-quarter truths (I can't decide which of those two are worse), *EITHER needs something to believe in again *OR to simply face the feeling of nothingness and get passed it to the truth (which is harder to do), than again finding the object of belief. Because the, as it were going of the extra mile if you want to, to the subject-object of oneself and beyond into the fullness of the truth is much more difficult. Sceptics are saying no that's the higherMalarkey it all begins and ends with nihilism - belief -nihilism - belief ... i.e. Nietzsche - Plato - Neitzsche - Plato ...

And then the song: 'is that all there is my friends, then lets keep dancing...' yaddah, yaddah. To them I would say theirs is the higher-*malarkey in stopping therein, essentially chasing their own tails.

As Aristotle & later again Heidegger demonstrated it is the phenomenon of self-showing (in Greek 'aletheia') that allows us beings to be objects of assertions in the first place. Or humorously as Woody Allen pointed out as an artist: nine-tenths of life is 'showing up.' i.e. Aristotle's disclosedness or *unconcealment that the leading sense of Being is this presence or presencing. (Woody discovered the truth in the West - just put a camera on him, who has shown-up, and he's funny.) That is the thread (and accurate as well) running throughout all of Western tradition... even for example in the 'worthless boys' you cite above. This is the why of why (in my opinion) we're not only obviously different in our demonstration of logos i.e. doing&word, but since closer to what is true in its fullest or fuller sense, we're in our way superior to the middle eastern and eastern ways of the judaic, islamic, oriental etc. It's just my opinion we're in that regard superior; but culture matters and it is nonetheless obvious that we are in Fact different than them.

It's also the why of why when you put other cultures together, since they're different in both the behaviors and way of behaving or being they encourage or incite, the best culture in so far as being the truest, will not necessarily be the one to survive and so something important then is lost. If you put a man in a cage with a bear then in effect what you are saying is I value the bear more. Since obviously the other will be lost. I don't know you Mr. Allen and from what I've read so far I can't tell if you're yet in the Nietzsche - Plato circle - or rather in the Aristotle - Heidegger culicue which goes circular and advances somewhat... goes circular and advances somewhat... etc.

If in candor you ask yourself in which of the above you more tend to reside or if in either ... in candor do you know? Just asking respectfully and I would also like to ask that of Dr. Clyde Wilson.

On another note, the 'youth' of the country are not always completely clueless about everything. Even the most worthless seem to understand something about the shape we're in. I've heard comments like 'this country is already finished', and, on voting in the current election, 'I will not participate in the destruction of the country. I will not be partly responsible for it's downfall'. These two comments came from two grungy, worthless boys, unsolicited, as part of conversations in which I was not involved.

It seems the left has made a mistake in turning young Americans into nihilists rather than revolutionary radicals, for a nihilist can see facts that radical revolutionary ideologues are blind to. All a nihilist needs for salvation is something to believe in and hope for the future.

"Then happy I, that loved and am beloved
Where I may not remove nor be removed." -W.S.

I'm just a little baker I reach
high up on the shelf for my quotes
All the while hoping all my enemies
expire as they will stuck in their moats

Lend a hand please baker lend a hand
you must, to help us out and about
and again free here and there -
no. I don't why - you've had your way
for so long now to no avail and pain

it seems a moat is good in which by your
own hand for you to REMAIN. sorry.

as I whistle on my way back to my shop
thinking they had some nerve and what
CRUST. don't go back don't go back says
the voice don't be a fool -
they'll simply do you again like they did
before is their golden rule. -pele

Is that an anti-Russian statement saying Russians are going to kill all its Muslim inhabitants in the future.

It wasn't Russians who invaded Dagestan who bombed them out of there houses and ran terrorist training camps/schools in its province.

If Brezinski's plan comes to fruition you will have Russia divided into 3 with probably about 10-20 million dead.

And just how did the ship of state make a complete 180 turn in your fantasy?