Some thoughts.

"The most thought-provoking thing about our thought-provoking age" said Heidegger, "is that we are still not thinking". As a collective, humanity is under a guise, the illusion perpetrated by the abundance of information and so-called knowledge, facts and data to be processed by the central processing chamber that methodologically compiles information and distributes it throughout our synapses, systematically affirming that what we do or say cannot be anything less than reality. The naked, unbarred truth swinging wildly in our veins, in fact for some it feels so keen it'd be hard not to assert that this is it, this is the promised land we were sure we'd chance upon when information was truly free, but as always, there are limits to freedom, the fundamental problem being that these problems are imposed by ourselves. What is called thinking? One could go into a myriad answers and still come up short, at best what we could offer is an approximation, but rather than saying that thinking is insightful deduction and induction compiled as dialectic synthesis, it's simpler to check off what thinking isn't, and to say what it isn't it is also necessary to say what that negation actually is. Some would dare call thinking a fixation on present tense, situational awareness, or simply the way we know how we feel, our feelings, reflecting on gloomy themes or simply focusing on the adverse, the internal collision of man, his conflicting nature, sticking almost exclusively to nihilism. In essence, thought is not necessarily a negative thing, even when it is plagued with negative epiphanies. So is this really nihilism?
Asceticism itself has been elevated to a sort of mythological status, the end-all, be-all destination of so-called thought and progressive thinking, but the nihilism we know today is not true asceticism. It's a shall, a commemorative replacement for what was once the true base of negation, a hand-sorted series of arbitrary ideals that dull the mind and subject thought to a pattern of diffidence. How can this be thought? Technology has only pushed humanity far enough to make use of its cognitive capacities insomuch that we are required to increase our use of them more and more as technology itself progresses, we form liaisons and primordial temptations to believe this is thought simply because we are (for the most part) more aware of the usage of our understanding per diem. It should be plain to see these changes are merely cosmetic, the surface value of these thoughts don't even lie in abstraction or complication, two basic tools for dialectic reasoning, but based on face-value fact-mongering and idealistic wanton, a fetish for facts and information rather than a clear grasping of them. This fetish is also malformed because of its trivial nature- and all things could be said to be trivial, but some more than others. On one hand the world tumbles into and endlessly vapid but cosmetically intriguing direction, on the other it tumbles into the nothingness of absurdity. What value does one hold over the other? Inherently, the answer is none. However practically it is another story, the practicality of these ivory towers outweighs the laziness of cosmetic thinking.
We are born here, thrown into obscurity and meaninglessness, waves of universal indifference pass through us leaving a lingering sense of mutual detachment in its wake, it is precisely this what binds us close to the cosmos, which must be what forces us to face ourselves. The primeval chaos that surrounds us exerts a quiet structure and what we perceive, what sense we try to make of it, bends and twists to our thought, to our insight. Complacency in thought leads us to see the universe as a vast and uninteresting mechanism we would be comfortable with simply knowing it rests in the background of our feeble existence. Rather than contribute to the age of non-thought, it should be the aim of an individual to sacrifice his or her own thoughts, to make them into the ebb of external being and shape his or her own consciousness. To me personally there is nothing I can stand less than one who's thoughts center around the inattentive aspects of modernity and civilization, it should be a shame to those who relish in impassivity and try to mask it as nihilism, it is instead narcissism that reigns.