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The Antidenialist

Let us refer to nihilism, she sniffed, while pompously looking down her nose as coterminous with totalitarian and fascist nostrils, breathing terrors both inside paranoid and outside victimizing all but mutually maligning bullies, who never bother to listen to each other anyway. With that as our historical background we might notice, Although everyone is victimized by nihilism: 1. Some victims vote for empowering denialist nihilists anyway, believing we have not nominated any healthier choices. When everybody sucks, the LoseLose question becomes who sucks up least from my intended egocentric direction? 2. Poor and marginalized people, non-bully species and natural systems, like rivers and forests, matriarchs and their vulnerable hurt children, people with color and without Elite Patriarchal credentials inheritance historical empowerment cultural over-investment are those first longest deepest hurt by antiEarth de-nihilism, while more plutocratic middle class conservatives are also victims of self and other denial, yet more likely to vote for it along with those wealthy enough to stay on the bully side of universal WinLose self-nihilism of this potentially humanely global democratic WinWin species. It does not seem too difficult to me, she sniffed again, to recognize that love and integrity have become more regenerative empowerment through mutual solidarity of purpose, nor to feel this in my phylogenic bones, nor to play WinWin integrity rather than eco-denial WinLose Solitaire. My righteous opposite of LoseLose nihilism-- more wealth of health enculturing instead. And then she threw back her head wrapped her shawl more tightly around her phylogenic bones and stalked out of the classroom, without so much as asking for a question. I didn't know whether to believe what she said or what she did or both, somehow.

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