“So what happens is that if your value system collapses, then all you’re left with is negative emotion, and that is not a good thing. Well, so Nietzsche would say, well why do people flee into the arms of totalitarians from the specter of nihilism? It’s because totalitarian certainty, even though it involves slavery and the sacrifice of reason and intellect, totalitarian certainty might be preferable to nihilistic chaos. Well, it’s a big problem.”