Nihilitarianism

If you follow only your impulses, you submit to whatever force impels you in the moment, and as the force of gravity is always among them, it means you're going to fall. If you take the path of least resistance, game theory guarantees that the behaviours most likely to survive are those that are the most stable, unchanging, repetitious. Stability requires simplicity, therefore, to do only what comes most easily to us is to lose complexity. Bacteria infinitely outnumber humans because it's a more viable evolutionary strategy to be a bacterium. To keep evolving, we need to keep trying to improve ourselves, even if it's hard, even if our own selves resist it. Nothing must stop our freedom, not even our selves. We can't rely on anything to know where to go, not even on our own feelings in the moment. What's best for us is a mystery, and it requires all our faculties, both cognitive and emotional, to build some sort of framework by which to find out. We have to strike a balance between contradicting the past and combining the future with it, and the only way to find that balance is to keep trying every shade in the continuum.