What if meaninglessness isn't a crisis, but the baseline?
Most philosophies try to rescue meaning. Religions, ideologies, and self-help frameworks all promise the same thing in different costumes: that your life fits into a larger story, and if you play your role well enough, it will all make sense.
Volitional Nihilism: When Nothing Matters, Everything Matters starts where those stories end.
This short manifesto argues that:
The universe is genuinely meaningless-and always has been.
Belief is not revelation, but a biological strategy for reducing fear and uncertainty.
Identity isn't a soul or a "true self," but an ecosystem grown from repeated actions.
Meaning is not discovered or chosen in the abstract; it appears only as the residue of what you actually do.
There are no ten steps, no hacks, no promise that "everything happens for a reason."
Volitional Nihilism is not a new belief system to join. It is an anti-philosophy: a way of looking at meaning, belief, and behavior after the cathedral of inherited stories has already burned down.
If you're exhausted by self-help optimism, suspicious of spiritual rebrands, and no longer satisfied with "just believe anyway," this book will not comfort you.
It will do something colder and, for some, more honest:
Take away the script, leave you in the clearing, and show why-
when nothing matters, everything matters.
