A philosophical perspective that acknowledges the inherent chaos and indifference of the universe while rejecting total despair. It embraces the human spirit’s defiance against meaninglessness, asserting that while life may have no predetermined purpose, individuals can carve out their own meaning through struggle, resilience, and personal creation. Rooted in existential awareness, Simonic Nihilism finds beauty in the act of resisting fate, choosing to fight against the void rather than succumbing to it.
Even as he faced insurmountable odds, he lived by Simonic Nihilism—if life was chaos, he would meet it with his own defiance.
The belief that even if life is meaningless, we still choose to fight, to feel, to create—not because it changes the outcome, but because that’s what makes us human. It’s the defiance of giving in to emptiness, the quiet scream against the void. It’s crying out to the universe not for answers, but to be heard. It’s embracing the chaos, the heartbreak, and the beauty of existing, all while knowing none of it was promised.
When I read his poetry, it wasn’t just existential dread—it was Simonic Nihilism: the refusal to be silenced, even when no one is listening.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”