I renew my attempts to identify barriers to conversation and uncover another problem-within-a-problem: the propensity to label as "nihilistic," sound arguments for the removal of a system, merely because such removal would be drastic. Demand for justice, equality and freedom should not yield to 'But how would we replace [this massive unjust system]?! You're a nihilist if you don't have an alternative.'
*** I liked the idea of Nietzsche's portrait because he "philosophized with a hammer," and reductio ad nihilism the act of assuming that one's interlocutor has a philosophy of hammering. Music by Pogo
