Preface: Why is enlightened nihlism a non-philosophy?

In Greek, 'philo' means love and 'sophus' means wisdom. Assuming the absence of mischievously ambiguous translating intentions while coining the word philosophy, we can safely infer that philosophy implies love of wisdom (at least in etymological terms).

In English, 'love' means fondness, affection and many other such unimaginably contorted things; and 'wisdom' means soundness of judgement in matters relating to life and conduct arising out of knowledge, learning and experience.

'Nihilism' (derived from Latin 'nihil' meaning nil) signifies an attitude of extreme skepticism with an ardent maintenance of the opinion that nothing exists for real; it also implies the rejection of all hitherto imbibed religious and moral principles. Radical, eh? To cut a long story short (even though it might already be too late), nihilism means 'nothing matters'.

Evolving a step, enlightened nihilism means 'nothing matters, except one'.

Enlightened nihilism is the ever-evolving, never-culminating approach to life recognising the fact that amongst all the noise and illusory (and illusive) mosaic of worldly dependencies, there is only one thing that matters. Further enlightenment would illuminate the not-just-imminently-possible-but-also-most-sensible hypothesis that the one thing that matters, is actually the only thing that exists (from one's point-of-view).

So, enlightened nihilism, in retrospection, is the only plausible way by which life can be lived. Because a life lived any other way would not be life, but a sorry imitation of it.

And recognising this fact is no philosophy (hence, a non-philosophy). It is much more profound than that. It is plain common sense.