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SCHOPENHAUER is the OG BLACKPILLER... Long before modern discourse on dating, status, and despair, Schopenhauer mapped the brutal mechanics of desire, suffer...

Jack Gordon
14.4K views • Dec 18, 2025

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SCHOPENHAUER is the OG BLACKPILLER... Long before modern discourse on dating, status, and despair, Schopenhauer mapped the brutal mechanics of desire, suffering, and the indifference of nature. Today’s blackpill philosophy echoes him almost line-for-line. But YOUR story doesn't have to end there. Nietzsche takes the same starting point—the tragedy that is existence...and transforms it into a call to rise, to create, to ascend.
In this video, I break down how the modern blackpill is rooted in Schopenhauer’s pessimism, why it traps young men in fatalism, and how a Nietzschean response offers the only real escape: will, strength, style, and self-creation.
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In this video, I break down how the modern blackpill is rooted in Schopenhauer’s pessimism, why it traps young men in fatalism, and how a Nietzschean response offers the only real escape: will, strength, style, and self-creation.
#history #podcast #science #looksmaxxing #modelling #democracy #existentialism #booktok #philosophy #looks #cosmetics #chads #chud #memes #based #politics #men #mensmentalhealth #mentalhealth #epidemic
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