Talk:Survivalism

Alternative term: existentialism

(May be incorporated later; now at least on the talk page)

Instead of survival, we can talk of continuing existence, as opposed to cessation of existence. Some literature uses the phrase "struggle for existence", e.g. S:Darwinism (Wallace). Thus, instead of survivalism, we could talk of existentialism (omitting the word and concept of struggle).

Alas, the word existentialism is already in use. We would need to figure out whether the customary use of the word has any bearing on the analysis I am trying to undertake here. From reading of Britannica's article on existence, the customary use of existentialism goes into a different direction.

We could also emphasize struggle (and omit "for existence"), and get something like strugglism. But then, replicators do not really need to struggle; they just need to do whatever it takes to be here/to have copies here, to survive adverse events.

We could also note the phrase "struggle for life", used by Darwin in S:Origin of Species. We already considered the word "struggle"; what remains to consider is the word "life". We could get "lifeism", but we already have "viabilism", from "viable".

Links:

• existentialism, britannica.com

--Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 12:25, 11 October 2024 (UTC)