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Interpersonal Relationships and Nihilism
Today is already the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and many people have finished visiting relatives and friends, waiting for work on the ninth day. During the Chinese New Year, giving red envelopes, toasting each other, and exchanging pleasantries have become routine for us.
My interpersonal relationships mainly fall into two categories: traditional relationships based on blood ties and relationships centered around shared interests. I find that my relationships are becoming fewer and fewer. - Human and Human (https://telebookstall.xlog.app/human-and-human)
Because I believe,
The most important exchange of information has already taken place during conversations. I have poured out my insights and understanding of the world. So even if we never meet again, what does it matter? - Heartless Person (https://telebookstall.xlog.app/heartless-person)
When discussing various social interactions with my family, we often say, "It's just that thing," "If we don't go, what's the point of having relatives," "It's actually meaningless."
Two people with shared interests can exchange information at the beginning. However, as understanding deepens, the mutual attraction weakens. Just like we mentioned before, liminality (https://t.me/telebookstall/1886).
Therefore, giving red envelopes, maintaining the etiquette of reciprocity, is necessary for sustaining interpersonal relationships. It's just that now we are not together, there is no common industry, no mutually beneficial relationships, we are far apart from each other, naturally making it less meaningful.
Of course, from an objectivist perspective, developing mutually beneficial relationships can also be lively. However, this kind of liveliness is not significant.
Ultimately, it leads to individualism (https://telebookstall.xlog.app/individualism). A state where everything is about the self, so there is no self. I think many people experience this sense of meaninglessness, and if we could recreate a society based on human relationships, these connections could provide a stable core, offering a different kind of meaning, but it's just a change in appearance.
Rooting the self (https://telebookstall.xlog.app/Can-thinking-be-rooted) means discovering the meaninglessness of all meanings. Breaking through the original core, becoming unstable. Therefore, emotions need not be pure, as purity leads to emptiness.
Some have described this stall as nihilistic, I am like an ox plowing the fields, once working hard to cultivate, but the reins have been broken, the burden lifted, and the meaning of tilling the land lost.