Dirdam
22 July 2009
It's truly fortunate that in these times of economic crisis, rising unemployment, social disorder, terrorism and plain, pathetic pessimism, we still have that old reliable, nihilism, to fall back on. Without pillars of order and stability like nihilism, I believe, truly, that we'd be trying to hug smoke, to nail jello to the wall, to base our profundities on marshmallows......
Nihilism speaks to our poetic core. If you combine it with a healthy irony, the mixture is a truly potent one; a union in which bleakness plays no role; there is no room for delusional optimism in ironic nihilism -- the truth is what is not and what is not is false!
