Extreme nihilism turns into a self-feeding cycle, where negation becomes the only product, expelled and digested again.
## The digestion of the void
Nihilism, in its most radical form, ceases to be a mere negation and becomes a metabolic process. It is no longer about asserting that "nothing has meaning," but rather that this very negation becomes both the engine and the result. It is like an intestine that digests everything it finds and expels it as waste. This waste, in turn, becomes the only raw material available to be processed again. The result is a closed cycle, an operation that generates nothing beyond its own uselessness, a constant self-degeneration.
## Beyond the absurd
Unlike the absurd, which maintains a tension between the desire for meaning and its absence, or skepticism, which still operates with distinctions, this radical nihilism dissolves any difference. Criticism, irony, denunciation, cynicism, or even so-called "lucidity" become mere byproducts of this digestive process. Everything is reduced to fecal matter of the same philosophical intestine. Negation becomes the organ that produces and feeds on its own waste.
## A self-contained mechanism
Once installed, this nihilistic mechanism needs no philosophical theses to function. It operates by itself, expelling and reabsorbing its own residue. The expression of this dynamic resembles shit, not as something abject to be rejected, but as the inevitable residue of an operation that only produces its own excretion. The cycle closes in on itself, an autopoiesis of the void.
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