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Individualism and relativism leads to nihilism, The reluctance to judge one way of life better than another. Nothing matters beyond personal freedom and authenticity. If there is nothing more than one's own truth and no meaning to be found in any experience other than the stultifying realization that it is one's own, nothing finally matters. This sense of acedia is reinforced by moral cynicism—the “distrust of anything that is noble, heroic, or magnanimous. No one would really prefer a life of disinterested service rather than a life of self-advancement, cynicism counsels. Thus instead of emulating the "good persons", dismissing them as frauds.
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