Maxim Blake
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#Nihilism

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How I Learned *to Stop Worrying* and Appreciate Authoritarianism's Honest Branding
Apr 2026 18 · 04 · 26 Contemporary · Critique · Nihilism

How I Learned *to Stop Worrying* and Appreciate Authoritarianism's Honest Branding

Why do Western governments make decisions that seem actively suicidal? Why do they start wars they can't win, tank their own economies, sell out their industrial base, behave with a schizophrenia that makes no strategic sense?

8 min
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A Meditation Gone Sideways
Oct 2025 09 · 10 · 25 Dark Humor · Erotic · Existential · Nihilism

A Meditation Gone Sideways

There I am, bloody determined to join the enlightened masses, downloading this meditation app like some convert at the altar of digital wellness. Pastel animations of serene bastards floating through manufactured tranquility. Yes, I'm gonna be a guru!

4 min
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The Violent Birth of Tomorrow
Sep 2025 07 · 09 · 25 Philosophy · Nihilism · Society · Social · Cognitive Dissonance · Contemporary

The Violent Birth of Tomorrow

Real change is not a morning routine or a mindset hack, it is controlled demolition. Self-shock is the choice to destroy the parts that keep you safe and small, so a truer self can form. Do not wait for crisis, become the author of your own rupture and rebirth.

8 min
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World Champion
Jun 2025 30 · 06 · 25 Dark Humor · Existential · Nihilism

World Champion

You're a masterpiece sculpted by cosmic sarcasm, blessed by existence's eternal practical joke, crowned victor in a competition nobody understood whilst everyone else drowned in biological obscurity.

3 min
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Unapologetic
May 2025 07 · 05 · 25 Psychological · Existential · Intimacy · Philosophy · Nihilism

Unapologetic

Survival is not his aim. He wishes dispersion, atomisation, the kind of ending that leaves nothing for mourners to gather around.

3 min

Wander elsewhere.

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