Introduction

David Hume, the Scottish Enlightenment empiricist,dismantled many philosophical assumptions of his time with surgical skepticism. He denied the existence of innate ideas, questioned causality, and famously critiqued the notion of a stable, continuous self. Fracturism, a 21st-century philosophy rooted in existential realism, post-collapse awareness, andnarrative authorship, shares surprising kinship with Hume—but diverges sharply in tone, purpose, and implications.