A Dostoevsky character in Crime and Punishment says: "If there is no God, everything is permitted." Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud agreed that if there is no God, then anything man wants to do is permitted.
Freud said: “... it would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization.”
Apparently this statement is from Sigmund Freud's, The Future of an Illusion, 1961.
Die Frankfurter Schule, or the Frankfurt School, were a group in pre-Nazi Germany who were
Marxists but believed that the transformation of society in the West could not be achieved by violent revolution as it was in Russia. They thought that the transformation of society in the West would be best achieved by a slower process of taking over the major institutions of education, church Christianity, art, and the media such as movies, books and magazines, in other words, the cultural institutions.
Without God, a society under Transformational Marxism ends up in nihilism. God gives over, the society itself, or parts of society gives itself over, to some forms of nihilism. The "springtime of revolution" appears as something positive, an exciting time, but it is just the beginning of the move into nihilism.
By 2016, sixty-six years after the publication of Adorno's The Authoritarian
Personality and the entry of Transformational Marxism into American society, we can see
forms of nihilism as a result.
Wanting to destroy parts or all of the Bill of Rights is a form of nihilism, because the results can be anticipated before they occur. In other words, history shows that Marxism leads to death of many individuals and death of a culture which brought some life. The Second Amendment is not the only part of the Bill of Rights which is under Marxist attack.
Dumbling down the population in order to help bring in a collectivist culture is also nihilist in its results. Those who are dumbed down may not see the result as nihilistic, and are not even aware that public school education is now taught at a lower cognitive level than it was taught at before the sixties. See:
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, 1999. Charlotte Iserbyt's The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America probably helped lead Dean Gotcher to the understanding he has about the takeover of the American educational system and the role of Benjamin Bloom and his Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in this takeover. Bloom was a follower of the Frankfurters.
But again, few would admit that a follower of the Marxist Frankfurters - Benjamin Bloom - set up a system to force all public school teachers to study and pass an exam based upon Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in order to become certified.
Paul in II Timothy 3: 1-7 gives us his prophecy about the personality traits
of people in the last days. "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
Paul mentions traitors, which is very interesting, because the traitors are among those leading the multitude down the road to nihilism.
Some people on Internet forums appear to be so interested in winning debates that they bash, mock, and misrepresent what others have said as part of their insulting and harassing interaction. These people
ridicule what others have posted, and may seem to destroy carefully documented positions of others on issues. Internet nihilists, sometimes called "trolls," often mock those who they target. Misrepresention of what others have said is a tactic of the dialectic. But the followers of the traitors do not know what the dialectic is nor do they want to find out. They would invite Ol Dean Gotcher to leave any meeting or church where he was talking about the dialectic.
The characteristics of those with Antisocial Personality Disorder are relevant to the traits shown by the nihilists who are followers of political correctness. The nihilist does not know very well the difference between right and wrong.
Psychopaths have lack of conscience, they tell lies habitually, and they often want to get the best of others.
Then look at what is said about the psychopath on
http://soulesspsychopaths.blogspot.com/2009/04/psychopaths-are-devil-incarnate.html
"Ridicule is one of the most effective weapons in the arsenal of the psychopath." "Remember that the psychopath views others with nothing but contempt and disdain. The psychopath always expects to win." The psychopath...wants to win out over his or her target in debate by methods other than use of the facts and honest representation of the position of the person targeted." The psychopath likes to put something over on his opponent, often by way of deception, and wants to get the best of others.
The site goes on to say that psychopaths "Make others apologize for telling the truth...Make others waste their time by putting them on the defensive to make them prove every point;"
Again, Dean Gotcher would agree that those who treat all statements as opinion are perfect Marxists.