I think nihilism is a great tool. Basically creative destruction. You can use it to negate beliefs and consider things from a new perspective. For example, a woman's place in the world. That's a pretty meaningful statement in the 1950s, right? But if you negate that belief, just as a thought experiment, A LOT of possibilities, unlimited really, arise from the destruction of that previously fixed idea. I think certainty and rigid beliefs are a lot more dangerous than willful negation.
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