Ickapoo desires meaning, company. But nihilism is not neccessarily the answer as it is just a replication of the Divine, only negating it to repeat its structure. To overcome darkness and evil, choose faith in the Divine and moral goodness.
Heidegger writes that the task of philosophy is the destruction of the history of ontology:
We understand this task as one in which by taking the question of Being as our clue, we are to destroy the traditional content of ancient ontology until we arrive at those primordial experiences in which we achieved our first ways of determining the nature of Being- the ways which have guided us ever since.