#rationihilization

When an otherwise reasonable person–who like all humans depends on comparative sense-making–reaches the limits of thinking where all comparisons fail and, rather than admitting “I don’t know”, declares that everything is meaningless. This requires him/her to ignore the performative irony that he/she supposedly just used meaningful thought to declare that everything makes no-sense. (Should not be confused with more thoughtful  nihilists whose contemplations disclose the thinness of most “meaning of life” or “meaningful world” narratives.)