And we reject this nihilism, because nihilism builds nothing, nihilism destroys everything.
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Republican nihilism and Democratic neglect and arrogance had bred a virulent strain of nihilism in the electorate.
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How do you prevent this sentiment from turning into nihilism?
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Coincidentally, the earliest iterations of performance art flirted with nihilism.
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Nihilism was an important part of Dada as an idea.
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UnREAL runs on atmosphere, and perhaps more peculiarly, on nihilism.
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ISIS is a nihilism grown out of al Qaeda's intolerance.
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And this sort of nihilism is part of the problem.
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Appalachian nihilism this may be, but it's not without humor.
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Choosing to continue down our present path is madness. Nihilism.
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And so their messages of nihilism, of pure evil, spread.
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She warned against being seduced by nihilism, cynicism or indifference.
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To me, Trump "values" are primarily narcissism, nepotism and nihilism.
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It wasn't a call to nihilism or defense of relativism.
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But wait: I am a salient blowtorch of nihilism. Cool!
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But when camp enters into politics, that nihilism becomes dangerous.
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But it's GOP nihilism, not Obama, that brought it about.
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Indeed, based on precedent, some will opt for more violent nihilism.
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It's a nihilism the story's own author has even previously condemned.
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Is it a terrible cesspool full of harassment, nihilism, and infighting?
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The Arab Spring turned into this terrible wave of terrorist nihilism.
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Dylan Matthews It's left me with a deep sense of nihilism.
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Eventually, this nihilism was absorbed into certain parts of the mainstream.
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New Release Nihilism pin is a party for all your nothing's.
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"Nihilism or Afro-pessimism doesn't necessarily get us anywhere," Patterson says.
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Finally, nihilism may emerge when people feel overwhelmed by their societies.
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There is an equal share of empathy and nihilism in this.
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Nolan also provided a specific philosophy to ground the character: nihilism.
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What he's addressing perhaps is a kind of nihilism about life.
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For many Law and Justice supporters, "the West" means moral nihilism.
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But "Dating Around" dispels the nihilism haunting the dating app experience.
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It shares both punk's nihilism and the grandiose ingenuity of Mahler.
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He is working on a book about nihilism in American culture.
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I can't say I totally disagree, but her nihilism disturbs me.
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It is instead a parable about the nihilism underlying such invitations.
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What I fear now is widespread nihilism and apathy toward faith.
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"There was such nihilism," Dr. Teitelbaum said of the diagnosis then.
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This is dangerous because there's a kind of nihilism behind it.
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If this all smacks of pointless nihilism, that's kind of the point.
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The silver lining on a cloud of generalized nihilism is earnest vulnerability.
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The Joker is a model of the hopelessness that mutates into nihilism.
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Brexit is the result of a deep nihilism among the British public.
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This is the nihilism of Alresfordism, a security-driven retraction toward death.
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In spite of my various convictions, nihilism had rubbed off on me.
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This is absurdism and nihilism wrapped up in one viral video burrito.
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" Philippakis, though, said he tries to avoid nihilism and "oh-dear-ism.
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Whites in rural America have no special privilege to justify their nihilism.
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Large portions of the Republican caucus embrace a kind of policy nihilism.
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These swings from nihilism to critical pseudo-thinking are just mind-boggling.
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Speaking of nihilism, let's talk about the heart of your book: Trump.
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We talked about some of it, including tech nihilism and other things.
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What I can tell you is this adaptation is nihilism at its worst.
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Being alert to the shortcomings of published research need not lead to nihilism.
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They're also clearly the source of the show's oddly congenial brand of nihilism.
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It's tough to deal with nihilism, because everything multiplied by zero makes zero.
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Ambien-like tradition, coked-up nihilism: They're going to the bank, either way.
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It is more worthwhile to think about this as a problem of nihilism.
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But it's the nihilism that makes the show such a relief to watch.
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As such, the sesh, the meme-ification of nihilism, was the perfect response.
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But the alternative is surrender to national nihilism and the welcoming of woe.
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My interest was piqued by a promoted tweet and fueled by dietary nihilism.
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And the lawyer linked their nihilism to their gayness, without quite naming it.
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Briskly spoken though Mr. Ready is, we never feel Macbeth's surrender to nihilism.
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Nihilism feeds into that shadow side, obscuring the stars with thick, gloomy clouds.
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There's a strain of nihilism pervading New York fashion at the moment, partly because of the nihilism pervading the general conversation with its death-of-the-American-ideal talk, and partly because of the general angst about New York fashion itself.
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" Furthermore, to act impulsively is decadent and hedonistic, and these are "signposts to nihilism.
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At some point, we're learning this season, too much "drama" morphs into romantic nihilism.
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Somehow this little miracle of good governance has survived the hurricane of Trumpian nihilism.
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This statement paints a closer picture to nihilism – nothing is important, everything is meaningless.
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This disruptive and symbolic politics of nihilism are now hallmarks of the Trump campaign.
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The cynicism and occasional nihilism of the 90s put a brief end to this.
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But Burn After Reading does come closer to nihilism than any other Coen film.
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This nihilism has not just emerged recently; I've lived alongside it my whole life.
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They played a muscular punk-metal hybrid with lyrics drenched in nihilism and foreboding.
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U.K. drill is unusually grim, suffused with a nihilism that expects little of tomorrow.
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Mr. Gvasalia channels the clubby nihilism of youth, but what he makes is fashion.
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Does it speak to the nihilism that most of us approach the world with?
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Jeremy's emotions throughout the conversation were an amalgam of nihilism, sorrow, and gallows humor.
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As they flee new fascisms, A Task maps the terrain of life amid nihilism.
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This is far from the picture of Nietzschean nihilism that Hanson and others paint.
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What is the outcome of this populist nihilism meeting our culture of American optimism?
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What a wonderful repudiation of the nihilism and cynicism embodied by the Trump administration.
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It's the episode that blends a hefty mix of bleak nihilism and social satire.
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But her claim to our support goes far beyond the nihilism of the alternative.
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Yes, the resurrection stands as a kind of rebuke of the show's seeming nihilism.
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JW: Self-aggrandizement is so much nihilism — critical, self-lacerating feelings of total impotence.
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Is nihilism an incredibly important concept when you consider any kind of avant-garde movement?
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There's a lot of nihilism in action films lately, but this movie feels very positive.
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Eventually, in Beran's aggrandizing telling, 4chan's crescendo of furious nihilism delivers President Trump to America.
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It has a boundless margin for nihilism; in other words, you can't go too far.
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Reagan era, nihilism in the air, threats of a nuclear holocaust—it all plays in.
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The referendum has been marked by a pin-striped nihilism dressed up as common sense.
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The more nihilism in the corrupt system, the harder it is to build back trust.
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These forces are motivated by self-interest, but their common feature is an operational nihilism.
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So what was Alanis, the poster girl for Gen X's ironic nihilism, doing on Broadway?
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But while "Corporate" tackles the same subject, it portrays desk jobs with a bitter nihilism.
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And I worry that can lead to a kind of a nihilism around climate change.
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He was responding to the specter of nihilism that was haunting Europe at the time.
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So before we collapse completely into nihilism, what guidance is there for the early-stage pitch?
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There is literally nothing in the health care system it makes better; it's pure policy nihilism.
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In 2014 Yanhuang Chunqiu had published articles that daringly disputed the party line on historical nihilism.
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To move away briefly from Dadaism itself, how did that pervasive nihilism impact on alternative comedy?
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I believe what is happening in darker music scenes now is about people celebrating their nihilism.
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To me, that's something I love about millennials and what I call casual nihilism-radical compassion.
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Nihilism, taken to an extreme that feels almost competitive, has become its own form of braggadocio.
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At the heart of the upper deck was, thus, a kind of louche and tragic nihilism.
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"The will against nihilism is typically a triumphal one: We're going to beat this," he said.
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To me, the small "penis" that was left on Prodeum's site instead silently screams with nihilism.
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This is at the root of our nihilism problem, and a solution is nowhere in sight.
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The days look bleak right now, but I refuse to give into cynicism, nihilism or hate.
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This is pure self-serving nihilism and I think it's important to be clear about that.
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There's little appetite for mimicking the hardball tactics Democrats once characterized as a form of nihilism.
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Perhaps it's my clinical depression, but the nostalgia that powers 22's Lion King stank of nihilism.
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But that's not to say I enjoy nihilism, or that Manhunt is—or ought to be—nihilistic.
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So, I suggested that it is the philosophy of nihilism which should be opposed by the citizenry.
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As a society, we are so conformist—my nihilism leaves room to let go of that conformity.
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A probabilistic nihilism that delights in the unexpected in and of itself sets at naught such achievements.
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The blankness of that nihilism, its resistance to understanding, is precisely what makes such violence so frightening.
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Null never yields to nihilism, but captures the rich and complex, if imperfect, lives of the dispossessed.
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Some of that critique is valuable, but it did lead to this nihilism that we have now.
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He was using the extremism and nihilism of that wing of the party as a bargaining chip.
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They're given a choice between postmodern nihilism, fundamentalist religion, or some kind of vague New Age kick.
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It's about the problem of nihilism and how to find real values where old dogmas are obsolete.
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Lewis himself seems to swing from civic optimism to abject nihilism, sometimes within the same perfect sentence.
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He denounced "historical nihilism," the party's term for accounts of the past that dwell on its errors.
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It is, rather, a time of rapidly spreading nihilism that requires a constant committed and practical response.
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Critic's Notebook Ricky Gervais's nihilism-by-the-numbers returned, along with podium passion and the usual bubbles.
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So a lot of people today fear fascism or authoritarianism, but what I really fear is nihilism.
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But officials say dwelling on such events is subversive "historical nihilism" aimed at corroding the party's authority.
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You may be wondering why any of this matters, and I'm not going to oppose your nihilism.
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There is no conceivable intellectual or policy argument to make on behalf of that kind of nihilism.
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It can take a bit of nihilism, according to the Multiamory podcasters, to let go of those expectations.
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In the final loop of the episode, Nadia has finally decided to enjoy the nihilism of it all.
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"Emoji nihilism?" a colleague replied when I asked how he would define the exact emotion being conveyed here.
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More and more, it appears the "we're fucked" argument—and the fundamental nihilism that fuels it—is winning.
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It's the comic relief that punctures the numbing, paralyzing nihilism we feel whenever we think about our futures.
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It wasn't just grunge's timeless anti-fashion that ended up on the racks though—its nihilism did, too.
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He's either in denial about his chances for survival or, more likely, or has surrendered to bloody nihilism.
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To celebrate the upcoming release of the compilation, THUMP called Twitch to talk about escapism, nihilism, and hedonism.
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There are no longer mediating institutions capable of slowing our headlong descent into epistemological relativism and partisan nihilism.
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After Tet, the violence and brutality continued, but it came from a different place — frustration, anger, resignation, nihilism.
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In his satirical 1928 portfolio Background (Hintergrund), George Grosz skews punditry with a combination of vitriol and nihilism.
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Held up against the report, the conservatives' rebellion on social media instantly looked like an act of nihilism.
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Cynicism breeds a kind of nihilism, a disbelief in all values, an assumption that others' motives are bad.
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The nervous energy, dread, anxiety, death wish and poppy nihilism are also in the sound of her music.
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Macdonald, who is fifty-six, and whose performances have a sort of sunny nihilism, talked about Chekhov's stories.
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Episodic television doesn't have much of a track record with nihilism: "Veep" gets to take the first shot.
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Rejoining the tormented history of modernity under an obsessive liar, America has accelerated its most insidious tendency: nihilism.
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I'm trying to whittle away at my nihilism (both the personal and the political) in other small ways.
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The danger is political nihilism, where everyone knows what they're against and no one knows what they're for.
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It's also hard to build something positive without falling prey to the easy nihilism of anti-system politics.
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You can take that question pretty far, ride it straight down the road to nihilism, cigarettes, and black berets.
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Because we could handle the show's cosmic nihilism, or even the two-year delay between Season 2 and 3.
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Lovecraft's stories deal with a particular brand of cosmic nihilism, complete with unimaginable, horrifying monsters that are beyond comprehension.
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Mosul offers a chance to convince beleaguered Sunnis that there is a better alternative to the nihilism of jihad.
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He's an Austin-based "free-market anarchist" at heart—an erudite polemic whose rhetoric often borders on outright nihilism.
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Maybe it's the smoke and the blackouts, but a very un-Californian nihilism has been creeping into my thinking.
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If CSM represents the easy nihilism of the times, the show's protagonists embody a will to fight for truth.
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He has given the French a session of "group therapy", commented Michel Houellebecq, a novelist known for his nihilism.
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We've also seen new forces mobilized, driven by fear and nihilism, to dehumanize others—especially those in the margins.
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The show's characters struggle with guilt, denial and nihilism; the breakdown of cause and effect; a loss of meaning.
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If their posts get moodier, they're still not at the level of internet nihilism that Twitter is known for.
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The band's fourth record, Prayers for the Damned, wrestles with dark material—death, drug addiction, failure, and aggressive nihilism.
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"Play It as It Lays," Joan Didion Turned me onto the poetry of nihilism at a very tender age.
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" A movement of "utter nihilism," it is "kept alive in the masses only in the form of permanent pugnacity.
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Nihilism can be simply defined and readily observed, but its causes are probably as complex as human beings themselves.
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I am hardly the first to note that capitalism tends toward nihilism by reducing all values to market values.
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It's this weird code — or lack thereof — of internet nihilism, a willingness to attack targets just because they're visible.
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Joy Williams: It's human beings who are unknowable—who can fathom or explain their cruelties and narcissism and nihilism?
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Deckard's questions about humanity, Molly Million's augmentations for survival, and Snake Plissken's absolute nihilism emerge out of this mire.
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Yet despite the pessimism — and possible nihilism — that Mr. Kosky highlights, there is plenty of humor, and even pathos.
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The show's giddy nihilism is assembled from easily readable individual images that maintain a dark babble of disconcerting humor.
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Maybe this nihilism of his was just his surest ticket to prominence and relevance, which he so obviously craves.
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The Joker carries a devastating nihilism, a deep well of anger and an inability to hold back homicidal impulses.
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That's standard genre posturing, but Logan is as much a hero as an outlier and can't descend into nihilism.
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Nietzsche feared that society was descending into nihilism, but appealed to the heroic übermensch in each person as its saviour.
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Her character's baggy clothes, defiant nihilism, and habit of moving food around on a plate — it was all so familiar.
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Unfortunately, this is merely a nihilism aperitif, followed quickly by Daenerys giving an incoherent speech to the remaining Lannister soldiers.
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Already in 2013 the party issued secret orders (subsequently leaked) that its members must be on guard against historical nihilism.
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The idea of nihilism, that Kratos is completely irredeemable, is incongruent with how you'd like to believe how people work.
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Born out of the nihilism of the atomic bomb, butoh is a Japanese form of dance that eludes simple definition.
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Economic dispossession and virulent racism stand in relation to nihilism not as alternative theories but as reciprocal causes and effects.
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The case for optimism is easy to make in good times, and when conditions are dire, nihilism looks like prudence.
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Freedom of speech protects our societies from shipwreck on the Scylla of tyranny and the Charybdis of nihilism and despair.
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It can open the way to a kind of messianic nihilism, or belief that violence can inaugurate a better world.
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They're the same things that inspire me to open my eyes, stand up, and tell nihilism to go fuck itself.
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"Dog Eat Dog" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for violence, language and maybe nihilism.
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But "1000 gecs" is less a product of nostalgia than of nihilism, an impressively concise maximalist exercise with no rules.
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If I'm being honest, sometimes I develop a good old fashioned case of nihilism and DON'T go to the gym.
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Instead of a critical, resilient and open-minded citizenry, a conspiratorial nihilism, rejecting reason and dreading change, has taken hold.
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But the insight into nihilism, of the kind that we find in Bowie, allows us to imagine another set of possibilities.
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There is a feeling of lack of control here and that can lead to either obsessive and controlling behaviors or nihilism.
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But Doctorow's theory also predicts another psychological hazard: When we ignore trouble for so long, we can slip quickly into nihilism.
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But do turn up for a guy desperate not to be "undone by nihilism," finding a little hope in good basslines.
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But if Lovecraft evokes existential dread through his brand of monster-flick nihilism, Rick & Morty counters it with a deep humanism.
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DONALD TRUMP inhabits a world of shiny, gold-plated, nothing-really-matters nihilism, and he is betting that voters do, too.
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Without that foundation of certainty, many feared (and still fear), mankind is doomed to skepticism in epistemology and nihilism in morality.
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It's trying to locate the line between superheroism and nihilism, between virtue and vice, between being good and being a psycho.
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As with bikers, there's a certain attitude to match the getup, equal parts red-blooded patriotism and kill-'em-all nihilism.
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It became a kind of metaphysical nihilism, in which the great truth the artist had to communicate was that nothing matters.
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Where does that leave us, knowing that these killers had every privilege in life and yet chose the path of nihilism?
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Is there a more accurate snapshot of Britain's particular 'well up for it' brand of nihilism in regards to the sesh?
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"There's much more hope and a lot less nihilism in my stuff than sometimes the critics give credit," McDonagh, 49, said.
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But even writing out that short summary begins to unveil the pain, even the nihilism, at the heart of the work.
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I've also seen a lot of nihilism: economists don't know anything, and we should tear the field down and start over.
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Nobody knew a thing, and nothing was correct—but utter nihilism could be staved off if enough people yelled loudly enough.
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And some people would rather fold themselves against the warm blankie of comforting lies or cower under their own violent nihilism.
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She destroyed and repurposed some of her completed paintings to create textured pieces devoid of genre, such as with "Nihilism" (1949).
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In truth, I was on the way out of religion for a while, but I fell over the edge into nihilism.
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If you're William Barr, there's apparently nothing like a healthy dose of nihilism to get you through a tough time politically.
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This laziness-cloaked-in-nihilism conveniently removes the need to have actual opinions about anything, but "giant douche or turd sandwich," right?
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She's openly heartless, but delivers her lines with a combination of humor and panache that's charismatic even as they reek of nihilism.
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Drawing the wrong lessons about the past can prompt charges of "historical nihilism", an offence that sees museums punished and careers blighted.
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And so despite the plain-speaking, 'we didn't give a shit' lines and in-person goofery IDLES aren't a product of nihilism.
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There's none of the emo-nihilism that's coursed through his tracks in the past, just plenty of quick-fire, boastful non-sequiturs.
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For Dun, it epitomizes the nihilism and arrogance of today's London elite: "Their coldness has become a mode of existence," he says.
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For that reason, it's probably a mistake to view nihilism as "an explanation apart" from the common analyses of the Trump phenomenon.
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It takes our reliances on modern technology, while throwing it in our faces and calling it a show—disastrous, dystopian nihilism included.
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HBO's True Detective writer Nic Pizzolatto cites Thacker for influencing the nihilism of Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey in season one.
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Trump's second is every bit the equal of the first in its slapdash nihilism — and every bit as unlikely to become law.
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I don't know if there is a starker example of evidence-resistant policy bordering on nihilism by a political party than this.
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Trump administration officials believe Americans will support their zero-tolerance policies over what Mr. Miller calls the "nihilism" of the Democratic agenda.
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Fascism, like cancer, sets up far-flung colonies, establishes blood lines, engorges itself, and destroys its host in cannibalistic orgies of nihilism.
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If you're Palm Springs writer Andy Siara and director Max Barbakow, you embrace that sense of nihilism, rather than run from it.
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The empty nihilism of "Joker" and the empty Anglo-sentimentalism of "1917," Sam Mendes's Oscar-thirsty war picture, are mistaken for profundity.
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He fully grasps the nature of the bigotry and the nihilism that Trump has espoused in the name of working-class empowerment.
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Camp has a tendency toward a sense that everything is ridiculous and so nothing matters, and in art, that nihilism is fun.
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He definitely doesn't identify with "men's rights activists" like Paul Elam, who tend not to share his hedonistic nihilism about sexual conquests.
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One of the things I hear most from people about Nietzsche is that he was a "nihilist" or an advocate of nihilism.
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Some other pieces ... Cory Doctorow wrote a really wonderful piece about peak indifference and privacy nihilism, which was a really important topic.
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It struck me that its transcending of differentiation seemed an imposition onto Paleolithic culture of the very thing that should destabilize it: nihilism.
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Now Xi Jinping, China's president, is waging war against "historical nihilism", a peril as arcane-sounding as it is, to his mind, grave.
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Jiang Zemin, who was then party chief, declared that historical nihilism was one of several ideological vices that had "seriously eroded" the party.
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" On "Tropico," KAMI channels Future's flow without the hard-edged nihilism, melting into a broken repetition of the phrase "you make me feel.
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The album's 245 songs are less concerned with solutions to society's problems and are more focused on the selfish, violent nihilism they induce.
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America is suffering a crisis of belief, and the opposition has to face up to a new nihilism at the heart of things.
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When characters die for no meaningful reason (and at the hands of something seemingly random), a work gestures towards a sort of nihilism.
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Extreme forms of metal music might be appropriated before pop music because taboo-breaking, elitism, and nihilism are inherent to various metal subgenres.
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Schur came up as a writer on the American translation of "The Office," which gradually warmed up the nihilism of the British original.
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I don't think I've reached the level of nihilism of some of your characters, particularly the exotic dancer from episodes one and two.
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Steven Parrino, an exemplar of punk nihilism in music and art, died at 46, on New Year's Day, 2005, when his motorcycle crashed.
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He's clearly given a lot of thought to this strain of detective-gangster fiction, to its cruelty, extremity, pessimism and flashes of nihilism.
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Mr. Assad has perfected a system of political nihilism, which wipes out people who oppose it and enslaves those who acquiesce and submit.
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" This, he writes, is why the Joker is all motives: "mental illness, bad jobs, alienation, misunderstandings, nihilism, devious co-workers, social-service cutbacks.
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Her fatalism mirrors the nihilism behind the act, and also the chilly abstraction that characterizes Mr. Bonello's approach to a potentially volatile subject.
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Tracks like "31 Days" and "When I Think About It" strike classic Future chords, full of despair, self-loathing, and a twisted nihilism.
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He is of the movement, and the culmination of the GOP's current philosophy toward EPA, which can only be described as thoroughgoing nihilism.
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Sure, but good ol' judgement may be the only real pleasure left in our media wasteland of endless takes and nihilism masquerading as insight.
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This is what we are fighting against -- having defeated the forces of fascism and communism, we now confront the forces of authoritarianism and nihilism.
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And YouTube has taken no ownership over what is happening to kids who grow up inhaling its trademark stench of bigotry, conspiracy, and nihilism.
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Trump's racism, excess, nihilism, humor, and all the rest make him the ideal host for such a system — destroying forever that antiseptic corporate voice.
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The following year Mr Xi said an important reason for the Soviet party's collapse had been historical nihilism, including attacks on Lenin and Stalin.
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The band's outlook on life is instead one of optimistic nihilism—seeing the shit the world routinely dishes out and smiling through it all.
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Presented with a choice of embracing Mr Trump's disruption, nativist warts and all, or defending the unreformed status quo against nihilism, the group splintered.
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This combination of messaging, media, and strategic confrontation was part of an overall politics of nihilism that Gingrich pioneered in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Gingrich transformed the GOP, shifting its base from a postwar to a post-Reagan conservatism, one built on opportunism, media manipulation, and political nihilism.
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Turns out SpongeBob is the perfect addition to so-called Gen Z's post-irony, which is all about exploding caricatures and shoulder-shrugging nihilism.
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So it's a relief that After Life wears its misanthropy lightly, its protagonist's foul-mouthed nihilism providing the show's material but not its message.
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Karen herself also paints, and I can see where her paintings might be part of the conversion therapy, delivering a jolt of aesthetic nihilism.
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Their brooding, atmospheric songs can indeed be full of dark shadows and existential nihilism—something that earned them comparisons to Joy Division early on.
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Alex's individuality and and "fuck it, let's party!!!" nihilism isn't just Alex doing Alex when we're talking about social distancing and other necessary precautions.
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Rexdale natives Moula 1st and Pyrex deal with this daily fear through "Wake Up," a reflective and melodic song that rejects frustration and nihilism.
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" Values, it seems, that seek to overidentify with images, ideas, and politics of the far-right, brimming with tokenistic, deliberately un-woke "LOL nihilism.
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But I also don't want her to get saturated with the nihilism that can descend once one begins contemplating the infinite needs of humanity.
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But it's Giuliani who, more than anyone else this year, harnessed the conspiracy-mongering and moral nihilism that fuels Trumpism to its full potential.
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Such plot turns are part of the show's commitment to its nihilism — and one of the reasons Black Mirror is so beloved by fans.
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Possibly. But as Black Mirror is eager to remind us, the possibility of seeing humanism, not nihilism, succeed is why we keep tuning in.
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The "we're all dust in the universe" view could easily shade into nihilism, but Johnson goes the opposite way, staking out a determined political stance.
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The country can go one of two ways, right now: toward a future where working together in good faith has a chance, or toward nihilism.
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Well, we hope those 10 episodes of Rick and Morty Season 3 were enough to sate your need for nihilism, familial abuse, and absurdist humor.
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Fantasies of freedom and escape embedded in materialism, egomania, sadism and masochism, nihilism, the reverence of criminality and insanity and the ecstasy of the onanist.
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Mr Gray never proposes nihilism, hedonism or suicide, and seems (like Mr Dawkins) to believe that peace, prosperity, honesty and common decency are good things.
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The reasons we love Sansa —her ability to see the long game — and the reasons we love Arya — her fearless nihilism — are fundamentally incompatible behaviors.
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The difference between nihilism and hard truth is the difference between resigning oneself to a meaningless existence versus finding meaning in the difficulty of mortality.
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For example, a pop culture that glorifies violence like video games; social networks that expose status inequality; a generation drenched in medications, bullying and nihilism.
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"I was quickly frustrated by the nihilism and destructiveness of classic German punk, which made old school hardcore my preferred source of music," she said.
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Whether he wins this election or not, he is building an organization that ensures that this personal brand of nihilism continues to have a platform.
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Narcos In my previous recap, I suggested a shift in Pablo Escobar's behavior from strategic acts of violence to reckless displays of retribution and nihilism.
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But the nihilism of the capitalist system is not confined to the social and cultural margins, to misfits in basements and meth-dealers on Harleys.
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I screamed the lyrics internally to get through the day, embracing both the album's nihilism and the sense of rallying against everything that's gone wrong.
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Rogue One was able to ask "what if Star Wars was actually a war movie?" and pulled off nihilism that the main films aren't afforded.
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Rancid riffs and infernal grooves collide, while vocalist Kevin Baker's foul bark further projects the sort of misanthropy and nihilism inherent in their overall sound.
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" How we reviewed it: A.O. Scott wrote that the film was "sincere in its commitment to nihilism, but coy about the implications of that commitment.
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And it produces a certain nihilism in which people are so skeptical about the possibility of finding the truth that they give up the search.
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But at 100 minutes, this fervent experiment drags — because it's too convoluted, and because the single philosophical stand it seems to take is for nihilism.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For all of its sneering, anti-authoritarian nihilism, early punk rock was always pretty much a White man's game.
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But while Bowie's nihilism grew darker as he grew older—Blackstar is a rarity in his catalog, a bleak album—he was never fatalistic or despairing.
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As such, L'Esprit français consumed me with feelings of uneasy nostalgia mixed with ennui for a perplexing "no future" time when nihilism mixed easily with hedonism.
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When the movie itself plays out with the same disappointing priorities, it feels like truth in advertising, but also like an empty experience in ghoulish nihilism.
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On October 19th the supreme court called a press conference to give its views on recent legal cases that state media have linked with historical nihilism.
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The change even leaves time for some surprise humor, which sometimes lands as peak black comedy, and sometimes flounders as nihilism masquerading as peak black comedy.
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There was optimism to be found in its lyrics, but it was always tucked behind hard-headed nihilism, constantly falling back on a "whatever, dude" attitude.
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"Zero Day," their first new single since 2016, is a pitch-black four minutes of laconic nihilism, sung like a haunted lullaby by frontman Domenic Palermo.
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But if this doom-and-gloom nihilism is really a way to convince yourself that you're "right" for not wanting kids, then dispatch with the justifications.
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There are bonus games tacked on for five and ten game win streaks, I suspect to head off the level of nihilism I am promoting, here.
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Nor is being stridently anti-fascist when digging into subgenres like black metal, whose inherent nihilism and pagan leanings can provide cover for white-supremacist propaganda.
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Last week, the legendary frozen meat Steak-umm had a Network-style outburst on Twitter, touching on everything from college debt to unemployment to millennial nihilism.
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To seriously and honestly ruminate on how causing a fatal accident affects a person requires, in a writer or an artist, a rare appetite for nihilism.
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I can't help but think that just a few years ago, Far Cry 5 could have totally gotten away with offering Grand Theft Auto-style nihilism.
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If we see Zombie Repeal as being primarily driven by tax policy, then it can be seen as part of a larger history of GOP nihilism.
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But I wonder, not without a hint of nihilism, if we shouldn't just embrace the roiling sea of cultural change that will ultimately engulf these islands.
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A symbol of shaggy punk nihilism, it is the knitwear equivalent of a power chord loud enough to scare the meow-meow out of Henrietta Pussycat.
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For many midcentury thinkers, nihilism, a catastrophic breakdown of faith in national ideology and institutions that had occurred in Europe, was also a possibility in America.
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To treat the subject as an entirely political calculation, though—as Ford did and as Pelosi appears to be doing now—is to slouch toward nihilism.
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He seems attracted by things intrusive to the peaceful psyche: the obsessive melancholia of outsiderism, folklorism, Decadentism, Divinationism, ethnologism, nihilism, and mysticism of the elegiac obsessive strain.
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But since this is a Hollywood movie, the only alternative to this entertaining if spiritually barren universe is that represented by Gruber himself: nihilism tinged with violence.
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Michelangelo is at his quixotic best when his drawings imply formidable forces of a kind of Nietzschean affirmative nihilism where new relational affects and intensities are assembled.
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As much as everyone's thriving in and cherishing the desolate nihilism of the current political moment, you can see why people would want to hear about resolution.
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Lyrically revolving around womanhood, ravenous media voyeurism, being horny and getting absolutely battered, it's a whirlwind of nihilism dressed up as the best night of your life.
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Camus's humanism didn't have room for Breton's joking tongue-in-cheek nihilism or Marx's deadly serious historical thinking, but he did have certain insights about their incompatibility.
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While rooted in the same unrest, the post-punk genre took on a paranoid nihilism towards society that began to replace punk's original need to defy it.
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They're on the search for a missing million-dollar kidnapping ransom between drinking beers, discussing the tenets of socialism and nihilism, and participating in competitive bowling sessions.
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But this just shows the nihilism at the heart of the GOP, the only mainstream party in the Western world that questions the science of climate change.
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American nihilism is an oozing sore, but like an oozing sore it is evidence both of a malady and of a body's desperate attempt to heal itself.
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A recent event strongly suggested that America is hardly a nation of nihilists or is in any present danger from the purported nihilism of a benighted few.
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Astrid and Payton are far from the only ones that project an image of themselves, and their lack of optimism reflects the growing nihilism of today's teenagers.
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They hold the abject, angry gaze of a believer reduced to nihilism, waiting to be told that she's wrong and knowing in her heart that she's not.
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I think it's easy in such a media-saturated society to give into nihilism and feel like everything is author-less, rights-free, and up for grabs.
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While flirting with nihilism, fiction's angry new mode feels too tender and intensely alive to have us believe that life is pointless or unworthy of art's scrutiny.
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Alanis's songs explicitly voiced the terror and anxiety of letting yourself care for anything at the end of a century in a culture increasingly veering towards nihilism.
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On the other hand, giving up on progress is perhaps the epitome of white feminism, and promotes a nihilism that is somewhere between unproductive and genuinely dangerous.
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But unlike the nihilism that underscores Greene's story, Perretta's focus on community and collective experiences suggests that hope can still be salvaged through the sharing of stories.
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" She went on, "Gittel was a vibrant member of a youth culture fuelled by a hybrid of possibility and nihilism that very much mirrors kids these days.
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The only people who have been hurt so far by the Trump administration's cavalier nihilism are the ones who believed them enough to get played for fools.
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In party-speak, historical nihilism means denying the "inevitability" of China's march towards socialism (the country is currently deemed only to be in the early stages of it).
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But Mr Mishra shows how violence, nihilism and hatred of the "other" have ample precedents among Western liberalism's 19th- and 20th-century opponents, whether revolutionaries, anarchists or artists.
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Eva's next 22015 episodes then lean into its percolating nihilism; they culminate in a two-part conclusion that left Japanese viewers dissatisfied upon its initial premiere in 22003.
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Taken at face value—before you press "play"—The Body seems to present its nihilism in easily digestible chunks, song titles and album names and T-shirt slogans.
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Trump's "torch-it-all strategy," as Allen calls it, is a return to form for the man who, as a presidential candidate, defeated his rivals with political nihilism.
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With that in mind, it may not be out of bounds to quote from a nearly forgotten book by Nazi turncoat Hermann Rauschning called The Revolution of Nihilism.
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A sense of radical incredulity, spectacularly typified by Trump's refusal to believe his own intelligence services, is but one manifestation of the nihilism that brought him to power.
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But while this informational nihilism appears to have hit a new high, the last two weeks have signaled the start of a possible reckoning within the conservative media.
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For his efforts, he earned the enmity of the Communist Party, which is increasingly intolerant of what it calls "historical nihilism" that tarnishes its stewardship of the nation.
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Unable to reverse the ivory tower's tilt, many on the right are willing to smash it altogether, another sign of the nihilism infecting the conservative project more broadly.
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They're as punk as it gets — with nothing to prove, no chance of selling out and a special brand of nihilism that can only come with old age.
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Samuel Levi Jones in his exhibition Burning all illusion conveys this realization, makes it visually palpable, but then turns away from the nihilism such a view might suggest.
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Characterization that rock solid barely occurs in the most scripted, linearly structured video games, let alone an open-world shooter, and yet Far Cry 2 avoids easy nihilism.
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The guitars are a bit more clear and sparkly than they were on the debut but the nihilism that pervaded her sound, to my ears, is still there.
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A number of Sunrise members talk about the concept of "millennial dread" or "millennial nihilism," the sense that things are bad and won't get better for younger generations.
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Online, political memes flew back and forth like spitballs, and even some of the most innocent ones (like that fish tube) took on a sense of ecstatic nihilism.
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Image by image, and with invocations of history and the Holocaust, Mr. Moaz also suggests that normalizing catastrophic violence — and routinizing mourning — is finally little else than nihilism.
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Responses from writers and other people who work in media ranged from debates over whether its author was a hero or a villain to your standard internet nihilism.
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The last shot is nonsensical, and the tale itself seems to indulge in the sort of grim nihilism that Black Mirror is often accused of but rarely guilty of.
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In this age of nihilism the American dream is being executed day by day by the genocidal warfare from black and brown bodies by other black and brown bodies.
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These paintings had an agenda — the intended heroism of Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (1851) comes to mind —but Birk's contemporary take on this genre is total nihilism.
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It's one of the reasons that Richard Rorty's " Achieving Our Country " (1998) has, however improbably, become so significant, quite beyond its prophetic predictions of an approaching working-class nihilism.
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He has been campaigning against what he calls "historical nihilism", namely attempts to blacken the party's early record by contrasting it with the prosperity of the post-Mao era.
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In this age of nihilism, the American Dream is being executed day by day by the genocidal warfare against black and brown bodies by other back and brown bodies.
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Philosophical Library also released Simone de Beauvoir's eloquent defense of existentialism against charges of nihilism and amorality, "The Ethics of Ambiguity," in addition to several other books by Sartre.
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The winner-take-all strain of capitalism also fosters nihilism by depriving certain classes of key ingredients that make or buttress a sense of purpose: work, family, social usefulness.
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I was looking forward to an extravagant bit of Hirst nihilism, betting that the artist could at least deliver something so truly bad that it would be delightfully good.
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He represented a masculine, alienated nihilism that posed an existential threat to the good guys, who, in the form of Batman, responded with unlawful surveillance and extra-judicial killings.
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Both Republicans and Democrats must work to overcome this culture of political nihilism if we are to have any hope of addressing the very serious problems confronting our nation.
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Enter a new boy, a stranger booted from a posh academy, who scrawls "NIHILISM" on the cover of his notebook and elevates the group's ennui into something more profound.
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In 40, her essay Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto was among the more widely read and cited online texts about the contradictions of this golden age of representation politics.
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But if you push hard enough without a vision of what comes next, or even any interest in what comes next, then it becomes nihilism, destruction for destruction's sake.
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Her work embraces a kind of middle space, a queering of traditional boundaries — expressing a kind of nihilism where maybe everything matters, maybe nothing matters, but either way, LOL.
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But in this season in particular, the show's emphasis on nihilism has undermined its attempts to explore whether it's possible to build a peaceful society without resorting to violence.
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EDM was, and is, a brash, gaudy, deeply unpleasant thing that seemed to embody a particularly blank kind of American pseudo-nihilism: Bret Easton Ellis for the Xanax generation.
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Gossip Girl's slow transition into nihilism is in large part a result of its decision to embrace its breakout character, Chuck Bass, originally designed as a one-note villain.
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The recent cases come as the Party cracks down on what it terms "historical nihilism," any attempt to question the official version of history, said Amnesty International researcher William Nee.
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Unable to comprehend suffering in terms of religious virtue or the carapace of virtue vacated by religion, humanity was doomed to sink into nihilism, in a bleak and meaningless existence.
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The band – voices of a generation, to be sure – have since released another track, "Everybody Hates Me," which is about paranoia and social media and nihilism and making u think.
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News quickly emerged of Christian's associations with recent alt-right linked protests, but he did not fit the typical white supremacist profile—he was into heavy metal, anarchy, and nihilism.
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For the creators of Kurzgesagt (In a Nutshell), a YouTube channel that tackles complex topics with "optimistic nihilism," the answer is to find ourselves a nice stable white dwarf system.
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And under such conditions, the only way to survive in a system governed entirely by nihilism is to become a nihilist yourself—even for self-styled members of a resistance.
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In the same way, it would be difficult to draw a sharp line between nihilism and racism, or to find a trace of one without some germ of the other.
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In fact, it's actually not a million miles away from Mates of State if you replaced the euphoria with casual nihilism and the twinkly piano lines with screeching guitar #riffs.
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Yet plenty of people have managed to become stars by peddling negativity or hopelessness or bleak nihilism, and history seems to suggest that's not the healthiest way to go either.
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Nihilism can leave a bitter taste in your mouth, but Webster is such fun to bite into, an invitation to revel in people at their very worst, to taste depravity.
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The scariest thing about this half-cooked play is that even after its catchall denouement, it's still Rachel's nihilism that feels like the most legitimate way of looking at life.
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It's hard to say if the muddle "Joker" makes of itself arises from confusion or cowardice, but the result is less a depiction of nihilism than a story about nothing.
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It is between culture and the void, between the many and variegated ways in which different people try to live together peacefully and productively, and the pure nihilism of autocracy.
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Wang said some party members practised "political nihilism", casting aside their beliefs, while others were guilty of "phoney politics", seeing the word of the leadership as nothing more than slogans.
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Led by a four-breasted figure (an earth goddess representing Nazi ideology, as my colleague Thomas Micchelli noted in January 2017), the painting is unremitting in its nihilism and savagery.
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And while the tears salting these scenes may be cynical given the movie's embrace of a what-me-worry nihilism, they offer a necessary break from the strained patter and violence.
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Mr Dreher's zeal and sincerity are attractive, but not all readers, even devout ones, will be drawn to his divisive purism or convinced by his lurid picture of "hostile secular nihilism".
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She's lighthearted but I also think that [power] also can kind of be — that could also enter sort of this place of nihilism and unmotivation, because what is she motivated for?
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But love it or hate it, the film does spin up a tempting fantasy of persecution and relief, of embracing nihilism as a means of complete escape from a terrible world.
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But if you loved the first movie for its weird nihilism — or believe that comedies are best when they don't just aim for the lowest common denominator — sit this one out.
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By reviving Mr Jiang's rhetoric on nihilism, Mr Xi is signalling that the party could again face regime-threatening danger unless it tightens its grip on the way history is told.
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Such mitigating factors are small compensation, of course, for the pervasive nihilism of Trump's political rhetoric—the way it had created a post-truth discourse that makes honest civic discussion impossible.
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Under Xi, attempts to reevaluate the core events and characters of the party's revolutionary narratives have been met with fierce resistance and the party warns scholars repeatedly to shun "historical nihilism".
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If you're the kind of person who wants a $45,000 watch filled with a drop of whisky and a giant splash of utter nihilism, it will be available on April 8.
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The show uses nihilism as a stripping agent, sort of the way the Cat in the Hat touted Voom as the proper method to clean up the stain he'd helped create.
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In July, one plaintiff, Ge Changsheng, said in an interview with Road Sign, an online news outlet, that Mr. Hong's articles constituted "historical nihilism" — negating the Communist Party's history and heroes.
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It was just as rebellious, only it rebelled against punk itself: its nihilism, its bad-boy pose, its mockery of melody, its belittling of sentimentality, and above all, its self-seriousness.
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My favorite Lebanese writers are: Fouad Kanaan, who introduced nihilism and absurdity into Lebanese literature in the late 1940s; Alawiya Sobh, Rashid al-Daif, Hoda Barakat, Layla Baalbaki, Balqis al-Humani.
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The New York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote that it showed Mr. Murray in "top form," as he smoothly alternated between nihilism and the traditional physical comedy that the script required.
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We must remain resolved in the face of great uncertainty, follow our north star, and avoid easy retreat into the numbing embrace of nihilism, along with its cousins, irony and cynicism.
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It's what Trump represents, not just in terms of wealth and power beyond any accountability but in the singular nihilism of his greed and vanity, that cements his grim aspirational appeal.
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"Years and Years" is harrowing because it's only half a step away from our present, where reality feels as if it's disintegrating under the weight of digital simulacra and epistemological nihilism.
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"Ultimately, 'Oblivion' galvanized Boucher's pain into a complex anthem of vulnerability and nihilism that defiantly eludes a clear reading — a reminder to never stop searching for nuance as you look ahead."
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But he skimps on the adult characters' inner lives, and, once the narrative weight shifts to the Lodges, he never finds the tone that balances the movie's sincerity with its nihilism.
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But roughly since the 2016 election, many of the memes that have risen to the forefront on social media have abandoned the irony, political satire, and nihilism we're grown used to seeing.
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" The lengthy profile includes praise for the singer, along with descriptors like "aging musicians" and "lonely," and phrases like "committed to making meaning rather than giving herself over to old-lady nihilism.
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Instead of the middle-finger nihilism that used to define the show, South Park has moved into a meta existentialism that holds up the mirror to society in a whole different way.
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"I want to emphasize that these islands of success will drown in the ocean of corruption, nihilism, the bureaucracy, if we do not build bridges between them, creating a continent," she said.
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If, as it seems to be, the sesh is self-involved nihilism masquerading as one big funny joke, then why not soundtrack it to the brutally joyless strains of Berghain-friendly techno?
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"Consciously resist mistaken thoughts such as the worship of money, hedonism, extreme individualism, and historical nihilism," Xi added, referring to attempts to reevaluate core events and personalities of the party's revolutionary past.
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When You Got Nothing, You Got Nothing to Loose As kids internalize the idea that they do not own their information and thus have nothing to preserve, security nihilism becomes a norm.
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Her answer just about summarizes the nihilism of Trump's Washington, where, when questioned whether the President would ban a religious group from Capitol Hill, his spokeswoman won't say for sure without checking.
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From the critics of the French Revolution, to today's public speeches against radical Islamism, the question of evil and the power it unleashes is nearly always subsumed under the sign of nihilism.
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Spurred on by a complete disrespect for those who affirm different ways of living, this massacre points to a growing climate of hate and bigotry that is unapologetic in its political nihilism.
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In today's culture we're often offered the choice between the ironic shrug of nihilism and positivity-obsessed pop psychology, which suggests that changing one's thought patterns can control and produce desirable feelings.
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To be fair, the blame seems to also lie with Ms. Beier, whose insistence on highlighting the play's chaos, arbitrary cruelty and nihilism makes for an intense production that often feels scattershot.
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It is fashionable today to predict doom with a nonchalant sort of nihilism, but behaving as though the apocalypse is inevitable negates the work of so many people trying to prevent it.
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For many Americans, frustration with our political leaders, which is understandable, has transmuted into contempt for governing itself, which is dangerous — a trend that verges on a desperate kind of political nihilism.
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With impeachment framed as an exercise in moral nihilism, Republicans and Democrats have now entered the field of battle over witnesses, with each side bafflingly defending the political interests of the other.
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As depicted by Victor Gaviria in his 1990 film Rodrigo D: No Futuro, the death and nihilism wrought by Escobar would have an unintended byproduct—a counter-culture born of Western music.
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It's an attempt to say Important Things about our technological future, but mostly serves as window dressing for nihilism, at the expense of viewers' common sense — and perhaps even our common decency.
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Arguing that society was heading toward nihilism—that is, a world without meaning, morals and values—Nietzsche thought that romantic love was frivolous, with friendship acting as a much stronger foundation for relationships.
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As machines come to control evermore aspects of our lives, one can't help but marvel at the beautiful nihilism of a machine that, far from world domination, only wants to turn itself off.
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I looked at responses from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and something struck me, which is that the two responses from the left—one, denial, and two, feeling—led to almost nihilism, really.
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It will matter if it nudges society in the direction of real progress rather than toward the nihilism of revolution and the sclerosis of a royal family draining resources rather than creating them.
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He then switches it up halfway: "Fun, we don't wanna fuck up nothin' / And we don't give a fuck 'bout nothin'," which nails the freewheeling nihilism of good people stuck in impossible situations.
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If Mac DeMarco's music is the soundtrack of blissfully tuned-out nihilism in 2019, On the Beach perhaps served a similar purpose for the jaded late-20s West Coast crowd of its time.
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Confronted with the rise of an "other," and grimly holding onto a memories of a past and dread of the uncertain future, the factions of the Metro turn to various forms of nihilism.
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Ty may one day become a Claude, or he may not; their respective evangelism and nihilism are not simply a matter of age (despite what it seems, Ty is also an adult man).
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Sully isn't cut along the cynically frayed lines of assorted current screen heroes, with their nihilism lite and butchery, nor does he fit the existential mode, the man in revolt, like Jason Bourne.
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In less murderous forms, you can see nihilism at work in the banal iconoclasm that exults in anything outrageous, provocative, or "transgressive," that sees no qualitative difference between the offensive and the genuine.
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In the mid-nineteen-seventies, a cabal of scruffy-looking men, outfitted in denim and plaid, were writing world-weary songs that blended the nihilism of rock with the earnestness of country music.
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Six years and innumerable hired-and-fired screenwriters later came Alien 3, a bleak meditation on death and nihilism that couldn't be much further from Cameron's souped-up crowd-pleaser if it tried.
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These are safe spaces for conservatives who think little has changed since William F. Buckley scorned the "ne plus ultra relativism, idiot nihilism" and "hoax of academic freedom" at Yale in the 1950s.
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They were postpunk — which is to say, more focused on attitude than aptitude — with a Generation X nihilism and malaise, and the clear message that anything, artistically, could be borrowed, stolen or sampled.
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I'm sure there are Walking Dead viewers out there who aren't interested in questions of how to rebuild civilization, but I welcome those questions compared to the endless nihilism of the Negan arc.
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But much in the same way that leaders on both sides have reneged on their social contracts by neglecting to protect their followers, the writers have punished viewers with inertia and bitter nihilism.
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We have nothing familiar to hold on to; no excuses for nihilism or come-ons toward redemption; and no escape from mute narratives leading nowhere, except perhaps through the fantasy of extraterrestrial flight.
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For example, when I hear someone like Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS, say that Trump "may not be good for America" but he's "damn good for CBS," that sounds like nihilism to me.
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Michel Houellebecq, a French novelist known for his own nihilism, put it well this week when he said that Mr Macron represented "group therapy" for the nation: a sort of collective self-medicated optimism.
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Notions of nihilism, though, are tempered by a forward-thinking attitude toward millennial music and, most importantly, an essence that is "wholly informed by spirituality"—an idea Moore's realized has always imbued his music.
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There's a faint sense of capitalist nihilism to prison consulting, which at times can seem a bit like the Wild West, with rivals gunning for one another and attempting to destroy their competition's reputations.
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For others, the catch-22 of having seen a utopia they can't live in permeates everything, breeding a nihilism which asks whether living the lie (like the rest of us) would have been better.
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And here may be yet another factor that draws people to Trump and draws them to nihilism as well: the suspicion that the moral niceties of their fellow Americans are either disingenuous or delusional.
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But apocalypse and nihilism, those specialties of Russian literary genius that Berdyaev unhappily considered so receptive to revolution and so hostile to culture, will continue to haunt Mr. Putin's quest to restore Russian greatness.
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It might have been mere high-priced nihilism, but Lucas Ossendrijver, Lanvin's long time men's wear designer, is more resilient than that, even when his collections seem to suggest troubling times or troubled men.
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And unlike Republicans, whose ideological rigidity and strident partisanship often border on nihilism, Democrats still hew to the quaint notion that the people elected them to solve problems, not prevent them from being solved.
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Like most musicals (and like the movie it's based on) it ends on an optimistic note, but Phil's struggles with suicidal ideation, nihilism, and hedonism form the bulk of the show's plot and pathos.
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DB: My inner (and incorrigible) nihilism looks at the situation in Turkey as strangely reminiscent of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, where the two main characters wait in vain for someone who never arrives.
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A new president could make a "meaningful dent," but the sad truth is that Trump's flailing nihilism is almost certainly going to make it impossible for the US to keep its promises to the world.
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Even economists, whose "nihilism...about what we can do to help struggling places in the U.S. is, quite frankly, strange" (in the words of Adam Ozimek) have taken to reconsidering their priors on the issue.
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In the TV show's period, these masks signal that they're followers of the long-gone Rorschach, which seems to mean a combination of conspiracy theories, racism, xenophobia, nihilism, and complete and utter distrust of authority.
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In addition to giving horror the imagery of the shuffling, bumbling zombie that's nevertheless fiendishly difficult to kill, Romero's latter zombie films were explicitly anti-capitalist explorations of modern consumerism and nihilism in American society.
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We see the self-protective "lol nothing matters" nihilism of Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) at the beginning of her arc, her lip in a constant curl, sullen and cynical towards everyone—even her mentor, Saw.
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Indeed, Nagle explains, the "libertinism, individualism, bourgeois bohemianism, postmodernism, irony, and ultimately the nihilism that the left was once accused of by the right" has found fertile ground in segments of the new far-right.
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This kind of privacy nihilism isn't new, and we've long understood that while people say they value privacy, they often act in ways that undermine their privacy protections (like not changing their password, for example).
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Since nihilism is the belief in nothing, the erasure of all values and the wanton destruction of all foundations out of which value systems arise, it is inimical to reason and to law and order.
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That continuing issue aside, Ball is introducing too many subplots and invoking too many huge concepts (empathy, fear, anxiety, religious devotion, optimism, nihilism, relativism, hedonism, sexism, racism) to give any element the attention it deserves.
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By 2015, he had been adopted as a sort of chaos demon of the online alt-right, whose members cast him in countless memes promoting far-right nihilism, anti-Semitic paranoia or white nationalist politics.
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And though The Dead Don't Die feels like a gently resigned take on the apocalypse, what lurks below is a pessimism and maybe even nihilism that feels very much of a piece with our time.
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They were postpunk — which is to say, more focused on attitude than aptitude — with a Generation X nihilism and malaise, as well as the clear message that anything, artistically, could be borrowed, stolen or sampled.
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Nietzsche was the Marx of the right, the original culture warrior who believed that the future belongs to those with the courage to face the nihilism of the present and mold it like potter's clay.
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" Instead, Mr. Morrison said, he considers her to be "a perfect combination of two important trends in Russian thought before, during and after the Soviet era: nihilism, a negative condition; and apocalypticism, a positive condition.
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On both myself and culture at large, the effectiveness of EDM's economic and generational nihilism has trended downward—and I think I feel the same way about the backwards-gazing familiarity that Murphy still works in.
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This plot has all the elements of a South Park-style paean to faux-neutral nihilism, but it plays out in such a slapdash way that The Golden Circle comes off as more dilettantish than cynical.
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Now—after what Brennan calls a bitter falling out with Watkins, an intense period of nihilism, and some tinges of guilt—he has become increasingly conflicted about his brainchild and his role in modern internet history.
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No game can communicate the extreme violence and despair of the First World War, but Verdun's chaotic nihilism at least provides a glimpse of what it takes to win a victory that doesn't feel like victory.
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He once memorably described his 20s as "gay hell": a haze of alcohol and drug abuse, anonymous sex and emotional nihilism, which he touted obliquely in songs like "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk," his ode to decadence.
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"Jessica Jones," another Netflix series based on a Marvel comics character, and the Marvel film "Deadpool" came along in the meantime and seduced audiences and critics with moody noir fatalism and wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking nihilism.
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As season seven inches incrementally in the direction we've been heading all year — all-out war with Negan — "Say Yes" is a break from the incessant torture and nihilism of our heroes' interactions with the Saviors.
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Most American men are unable to actually achieve this level of authority minus accountability; as a result, admiration for men like Mr. Trump gets paired with an "if I can't have it, no one can" nihilism.
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To those accusing him of aesthetic nihilism, Mr. Irwin would counter that far from reducing the figure to the status of the ground, he was rather raising the ground up to the status of the figure.
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But it's telling that in "Hang the DJ," as in season three's Emmy-winning "San Junipero," the twists as well as the nihilism ultimately give way to a simpler narrative and tried-and-true romantic optimism.
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The non-artists/artists in Turbulences dans les Balkans reconnect us with this deeply creative use of visual nihilism, where grappling with excess is recognized as part of the indestructible transcendent force in all homo sapiens.
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Throughout the empty, meandering nihilism of the first half of the season — in which we got too much of Negan and not enough of... well, anybody else — I wholly expected the show to take a familiar route.
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" Reading back over archived posts, it's clear that their actions were perceived as nihilism: One anti-meower user, defending the original Harvard group in February 1996, wrote that they were "not in the same vein as alt.fan.
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How much more will the effects of the Leave vote be felt by people who do not share their nihilism, people like my friends and colleagues who've come here to live and work from the European Union.
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The people who follow Peterson's work feel that he offers them a way out of nihilism, that he has taught them how to live uprightly and look for the good they can do in their everyday lives.
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A vote for a third party at this moment, to use Evan Blake's words, is "a dead-end political strategy of nihilism," a strategy that will only help elect the candidate most hostile to meaningful progressive politics.
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Arrested Development was the next evolution of television comedy after the late '90s accepted nihilism on networks with shows like Seinfeld, and explored exaggerated silliness on cable sketch shows like Kids in the Hall and Mr. Show.
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After all, the band is instrumental to the evolution of hardcore, being the first act most people point to in explaining how punk went from the bubblegum pop of the Ramones to the destructive nihilism of hardcore.
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The far-right anti-government talkers, supported by anti-establishment groups, have pushed the party to a nihilism reflected in the interviews of demoralized Republican leaders by Jackie Calmes in They Don't Give a Damn about Governing.
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Instead, they're extended exercises in narrative nihilism, in which head-spinning contrivances are piled on top of each other like spaghetti towers built to see how high they can be stacked before the whole thing falls over.
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He soon realizes that he's been embarrassingly close to his car all night and speeds off to his ethics conference, where he turns his portentous but apparently meaningless experience into a vehicle for his new-found nihilism.
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But I liked the nihilism in Mr. von Trier's respective approximations of racism and slavery, even if he followed a European habit, especially in documentaries, of diagnosing America's ills in the least surprising and most patronizing way.
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Instead of peace, there was rampant nihilism in the form of riots and fights and sexual assault, set to a soundtrack of nu-metal stars like Limp Bizkit and Korn placed incongruently near Jewel and Sheryl Crow.
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There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube—or bringing back the U.S.-allied Kurds who've been slaughtered as a result of Turkish cruelty and presidential nihilism—but there are lingering risks that can be managed.
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The Cruz brand of populism is based on his nihilism in causing gridlock and government shutdowns while he wears like a badge of honor the fact that he is despised by most of his Republican Senate colleagues.
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The level of bafflement these marketing campaigns produced, inviting queries about whether they were somehow being intentionally ironic (they weren't), was exactly the portrait of bleak nihilism that made Mockingjay so devastatingly fitting as a series ending.
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And the fact that she continued to make art, that she couldn't do anything but be a pop artist, that she was committed to making meaning rather than giving herself over to old-lady nihilism, was enough.
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They canoodle their way through most of the clip, and though their music couldn't be more different, there's a nihilism about both artists which means that they're actually kind of kindred spirits, and the chemistry is palpable.
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It has undeniably gotten more difficult, in recent years, to detangle modern geek culture and fandom from the toxic substrains of nihilism, entitlement, trolling, misogyny, and often a general lack of empathy that fuel its darkest corners.
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Oberst sort of dives into the bodies of various narrators (a young man tempted to join the army; himself as hot new musician), to humanize cheerful topics like the nihilism of contemporary, monetized warfare, and music industry careerism.
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But while the Starks are all finally learning that their father was a doofus who thought that honor would save them, they're also honing a hard-edged morality that's much more appealing than Ned's sanctimony or Frey's nihilism.
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I'm from here, so I can't be sure whether or not this is just another type of nihilism, but I think: Well, if all this nature is bigger than us, then I want it be get even bigger.
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In 1966, during a two-month visit to New York City, Venet's metaphysical and metaphorical nihilism was deepened by his encounter with American puritanical Minimalism, and he consequently incorporated it into his "just-the facts-ma'am" reductive style.
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Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block is known for the maximalist absurdity of Tim & Eric; The Eric Andre Show and its demented, ranch-obsessed host ; Rick & Morty's animated nihilism; and the bizarre and surprisingly violent short Too Many Cooks.
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An entire subgenre exists of works by Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Marcia Hafif and Wade Guyton, who all used the device to explore the limits of formalism, nihilism or materiality.
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And as he and Alma navigate the tangles of their shared life, it captures the stark nihilism we sometimes face, especially at the end of the year when we suddenly take stock of all our blessings and curses.
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Maybe that laughing person is Baron Cohen, who has vivisected us and left us bleeding out on the table, secure in his cynicism and nihilism, in the idea that we are not worth saving and maybe never were.
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Perhaps when the bodies were more intact they conveyed a very different message than they do now, but in their present condition it is hard to come up with an interpretation that doesn't tread upon nihilism or blasphemy.
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The drug-fuelled nihilism and graphic on-stage sex made headlines, but the most interesting side of his work has always been the themes of abuse, the corrupting influence of power and the reappraisal—and repercussions—of historic acts.
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It might be the biggest spoiler to say that this eight-episode coda involves them finding their way back to each other and figuring out how to express their feelings despite their terminal awkwardness and protective armor of nihilism.
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It is also extreme in its nihilism, a bill that has no function, no reason to exist, except to fend off right-wing primary challengers who could pummel incumbents if they fail to vanquish that great partisan bogeyman, Obamacare.
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Channelling that Werner Herzog nihilism spirit, Pang makes it sound like the unicorn frap threatens our humanity, epitomizing the fundamental emptiness of capitalism that strips us of our individuality by making us succumb to a social media popularity contest.
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While this lack of faith makes these characters despondent, it is simply an assumed feature of daily life among Whitney and her friends, and they act with a level of detached nihilism that is difficult for me to process.
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We've already suppressed our constant cravings for lasers, nihilism, and aliens, but pop culture-remixer extraordinaire Eclectic Method has just picked the scab back open with a nostalgia-inducing dance remix of the show's catchiest phrases and iconic moments.
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"The Corrections," Jonathan Franzen The first contemporary novel by an author immersed in modernism and a kind of Gen-X nihilism that fused DeLillo's coldness with the family novel — warming one style up and cooling another genre down, sustaining it brilliantly.
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Our priorities have shifted from lampooning frauds clamoring for a return to an imagined Eisenhower-era cocoon, to the king snake in the White House, nihilism infecting the body politic, and a much-needed reckoning for centuries of sexual abuses.
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If nothing I wrote above fazed you, then odds are good that you're probably already part of Black Mirror's target audience, or else you quickly will be, thanks to the combination of Bandersnatch's classic gaming mechanics with Black Mirror's standard nihilism.
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This would not necessarily be the case had Republicans rethought their Obama-era nihilism at any point, accepted the basic notion of a health care coverage guarantee, and stopped making false but politically potent promises to repeal the law outright.
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The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced in a notice last week that 26 apps were either terminated, suspended, or ordered to better regulate themselves after an investigation found they were spreading "historical nihilism" and "obscene pornography" as well as swearing.
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Where in another set of hands this might seem like an embrace of simplistic nihilism, Carazo and Daniel Arp instead seem to ask us to think twice about how human power dynamics are being played out on a planetary scale.
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Which dangles the disturbing suggestion that this was either decorative nihilism (it can't have escaped the designer how putting a black model in a watermelon hat might make viewers feel) or art for art's sake: Look what I can do!
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When I first encountered Martin Crimp's "The Treatment" at the Royal Court in 1993, the play seemed like a deliberately gnomic exercise in sidelong nihilism, and it was largely greeted as such when it appeared Off Broadway that same year.
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In many ways anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself, because at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character, only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery and bombast.
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The lullaby-trap fusion — which sees Lil Uzi Vert sing-rapping about nihilism and dead friends, barely bothering to enunciate — came to feel like a natural representation of Gen Z's distaste for polished industry professionals and sharp nose for phonies.
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Carlson, however, went on to express a view that in a previous era would have been far outside the foreign policy mainstream, but accords with the type of nihilism he's played a leading role in promoting during the Trump era.
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Further fogging up the dis-course, writer Emmeline Cline recently published an essay on BuzzFeed in which she called dissociating a "new trend in feminism," citing Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character in Fleabag as the poster woman for a new performative nihilism.
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Historians can debate the wisdom and efficacy of the cultural boycott, but it seems clear that to Simon great music is its own justification; depending on one's priorities, this can seem like a form of nihilism or a form of idealism.
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The lesson of the Trump presidency would not be nihilism; it would be that actions carry consequences, that Congress's ultimate constitutional power can still be used to rein in the president even in a political environment seemingly defined by extreme partisanship.
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The uptick in astrology's popularity has been attributed to a rise in unconventional spirituality, a playful brand of post-recession nihilism (in which it doesn't even matter if "astrology is fake," as the meme goes) and, of course, the internet.
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It includes Ellis's stories of writing Less Than Zero and American Psycho — pausing to note appreciatively his own "gleaming nihilism" — and then watching each novel get adapted into a movie (successfully in American Psycho's case, and not in Less Than Zero's).
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Todd: If there's something I most appreciated about this episode, it was the ending, which outlined the major schools of moral philosophy, in brief, before Chidi concluded that only nihilism mattered, which he illustrated by making marshmallow and candy chili.
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The fact that there's no upside for them, no real chance of survival, and they basically all die for being nice people is one of the few things that makes Logan feel like a knife-twisting exercise in cynicism and nihilism for me.
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To characterize it as nihilism appears to be an ironic misjudgment on the part of the reviewer, who, as the author of "On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not," should be no stranger to the limits of human rationality.
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Perhaps what was so upsetting to those parents was not merely the idea of (fictional) teenagers indulging in sex and drugs and petty machinations onscreen, but rather the moral ambiguity, or even nihilism, of Cruel Intentions — which it inherited from its source material.
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A couple of years ago, in what was titled "Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere," China's Communist Party banned, among other things, "historical nihilism," by which was clearly meant writings that dwelled excessively on the party's many disastrous past mistakes.
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Important themes included spiritual occultism and nihilism (as in, everything must be destroyed for truly nationalist life to begin anew), as well as a linking of localized ecology with the essence and spirit of the nation, often identified along "folkish" or tribal lines.
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It includes a close reading of "Mein Kampf," and considers that book's ideas and impact through many lenses — through Dostoyevsky's consideration of nihilism; Heidegger's yearning for simplicity; the weird and barbed images of the Old Testament, still lurking somewhere in our minds.
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Related: "Black Lives Matter" Makes It to the Venice Biennale Native Art Biennial Spotlights the Work of Indigenous Americans 9 Artists You Should Give a F*ck About at the 2017 Whitney Biennial Nihilism Is the Motto for This Unconventional Art Biennial
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In a way, even manipulating sound waves in an abstract manner (like, among his other projects, Eno did in Oblique Strategies), the disconnect Cage bridged resulted in the progressive elimination of a certain breed of nihilism, or the rigidity of a certain theory.
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But there is a curious congruence between the smiling nihilism of the 2016 Berlin Biennale and the aloof refusal of this year's: Neither offers enough of a positive vision of what an art exhibition, and what art itself, might actually be for.
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The gimmick creates a ready foundation for the juxtapositions of the 21st century: connection and isolation, the endless streams of "content" aimed at dwindling attention spans, and the mix of nihilism and fervor in the face of ongoing political, social, and personal disasters.
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I spent much of last night steeling myself to be disappointed, fully expecting that this morning we'd be sighing over the American weakness for British accents ("1917"), parsing the triumph of nihilism ("Joker") and sighing over a cute Holocaust movie ("Jojo Rabbit").
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N. The Joker obviously existed long before social media, but the character's glee-filled take on chaotic nihilism has, for better or worse, become inseparable from how we imagine a very specific kind of kind internet user: angry, insular, often violent, male.
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This time around, the animated band members explore a kind of cheeky nihilism in the face of a world in sociopolitical turmoil, while joining forces with a range of guest artists, from gospel singer Mavis Staples to Albarn's former Britpop rival Noel Gallagher of Oasis.
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Nihilism in that it is no longer a matter of perceiving heterogeneous figuration, but of scanning a homospatial criss-crossing and oscillating battle scene between interwoven figures, immersed in their ideational ground with which they have merged in a deliberate process of constitutional de-figurization.
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On Friday, a total of 26 audio-focused apps were ordered to terminate, suspend services, or have talks with regulators as they were investigated and deemed to have spread "historical nihilism" and "pornography," according to a notice posted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC).
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It also has a sort of philosophy, or so it seems: a kind of crude sub-Nietzschean nihilism articulated through the running commentary supplied by the character generally referred to as "the judge," whom I imagine being played in a movie by Sidney Greenstreet.
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Ten years later, though, it's hard to deny that King Night represented a powerful first dose of the current of extreme nihilism that would come to define youth culture in this decade, from Euphoria to every barely legal rapper with a million face tattoos.
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Women with psychologies bent out of shape are the rage right now, delivering jagged nihilism through pursed lips in books like Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends, Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Rachel Cusk's Outline trilogy, Nell Zink's The Wallcreeper, and many more.
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In the same way as antecedents for Donald Trump can be found in Roman tribunes and Nazi demagogues but not in any previous American president, you will search the historical record in vain for persuasive evidence confuting that nihilism in this country is something new.
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" In early July, at a conference of the State Council, Zhang Shujun, deputy director of the Party History Research Center, noted that Mr. Hong had lost the first round of his court case and that the Communist Party was firmly opposed to "historical nihilism.
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For our nation, there's the hope that the social fabric — the Little Leagues and Methodist churches and Black Lives Matter assemblies and League of Women Voters and library guilds and N.A.A.C.P. chapters — remain just strong enough that we'll escape the narcissistic nihilism of Mr. Trump.
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At the Playlist, Jessica Kiang called the movie "repulsive, toxic trash": In the past, Von Trier has been defensible on the grounds of his undeniable filmmaking talent and because so much of his nihilism clearly sprang from a place of intense personal pain and depression.
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It's hard to find a less likely cultural rallying point than Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty," the weird, bleak, semi-psychedelic animated show about a misanthropic scientist and his below-average grandson whose world-inverting adventures tend to have an odd tinge of nihilism.
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The culture might not have had "meaning" insofar as its audience wanted an exotic nihilism prepped for YouTube or reality television, and the skhothane may have had their own unexpressed agenda, but for some the subculture became a kind of echo of something else.
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The bleakness of nihilism seems like an odd theme for an exhibition, let alone a biennial featuring the work of over 60 artists, but the team behind art book publisher Endless Editions has done precisely that for the 2016 edition of their Endless Biennial.
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That is because, despite his abuses, a solid minority of Peruvians remember her disgraced father fondly, crediting him with taming the economic meltdown inherited from García in 1990 and crushing the Shining Path terrorists, whose violent Maoist nihilism once bathed the country in blood.
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TikTok videos on geopolitical events, from the Australian fires to the vague threat of World War III, can be viewed variously as awareness-spreading of underreported stories, coping mechanisms, exercises in nihilism, or goofy videos that no one should spend too much time analyzing.
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What looks to outsiders like nihilism is the opposite to many young Islamic State converts: They are genuinely thrilled to be taking part in a venture that aims to redraw the map and reverse the moral polarities of what they see as a fallen world.
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And the show didn't so much condemn this nihilism as luxuriate in it: Subliminally, at least, it was as much a part of the Gossip Girl ethos as the lingering close-ups on Blake Lively's shiny hair and Leighton Meester's giant tear-filled eyes.
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In addition to "terrorist" groups who seem to have given themselves over to pure violent nihilism in the face of this new age of restless spirits, there are gangs of bandits called MULEs who want nothing more than to steal cargo and deliver it for themselves.
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Maybe Jaime didn't deserve a better end, but it's contrived nihilism to say that his attempt at goodness, his painful failure, his defining act of heroism, his entire life's worth of experiences — they won't all just be forgotten to history, but apparently forgotten by Jaime Lannister himself.
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But it holds readers' attention by elaborating a phenomenon most will already have observed, and by providing an explanation for the dysfunction they see around them, from the brazen disregard for rules among many corporate and political leaders to the nihilism of drug addicts and school-shooters.
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Dylan Baldi wrote the lyrics in advance this time, rather than scribbling them down the day that he had to record the vocals, so we were dealing with his conscience rather than his subconscious; he sang through depression and regret instead of all-consuming apathy or nihilism.
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A fair few people had their lives ruined forever due to acts of violence at this festival but all we see here is a crowd deliriously cheering on imminent danger, fists held aloft, for the sake of pure nihilism, in a manner that closely resembles joy.
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The person looking for nihilism in its purest form need look no further than the de facto normalization of gunning down schoolchildren as an act of free expression—and, what is more, as an expression of nothing much in particular beyond the whim to do it.
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It may be that nihilism, or Trumpism if you prefer, is the indignant customer's reaction to being told for the thousandth time that he is something better than a customer when he has a thousand reasons for knowing that's what he is and often all he is.
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But here's the catch: A love capable of confronting nihilism must be nothing less than the militant, self-sacrificial force that it was for Martin Luther King Jr. "If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live," King said.
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The very subject of "The Executioner's Song" is that vast emptiness at the center of the Western experience, a nihilism antithetical not only to literature but to most other forms of human endeavor, a dread so close to zero that human voices fadeout, trail off, like skywriting.
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Since 2013, the Communist Party has spoken out against the notion of "historical nihilism," which it takes to mean any denigration of the historical image of Mao and the party, including discussion of Mao's disastrous economic policies in the late 1950s or his chaotic Cultural Revolution.
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It distills the brassy, IDGAF mood that suffuses 2019 internet culture whenever the nihilism lifts for a few days, especially among women—it's the entire vibe of Palmers' new movie, Hustlers, and, according to some, presidential campaigns like senator Elizabeth Warren's or outspoken celebrities like Busy Phillips.
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But what really struck me about Stelter and Marantz's conversation is how its insights about the death of facts and the profusion of narratives sprouted from a philosophical movement that began almost four decades ago but has since been blamed for the nihilism of the Trump era.
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His career stretches back to the 1960s, with something of a hiatus from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s, and it has been characterized by an elusive but unmistakable mixture of gravity and mischief, a deep skepticism about human motives and behavior that always stops short of nihilism.
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That is to say, Death Worship traffics in pummeling, chaotic black metal that flirts with grind in manic speed and overall intensity (if not aesthetic or vocal political leanings—according to the audio interview included at the end, the only lyrical theme on Extermination Mass is "death and nihilism").
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But though he cared deeply for the trappings of the myths from which he formed his "Ring," Wagner ultimately meant those horned helmets and realistically frolicking Rhinemaidens to be a vehicle for his philosophical preoccupations: tangled layers of social utopianism, anarchism, love-conquers-all humanism, renounce-the-world nihilism.
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I think his last great book was "The Crossing" (I'm a rare voice of dissent on "The Road"), but that and what came before it seems worthy of enshrinement to me, even if the bleak nihilism of his earliest work doesn't nearly fit with the lofty idealism part.
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But to look at the trend in these massacres, the spikes of narcissistic acting-out in a time of generally-declining violence, the shared bravado and nihilism driving shooters of many different ideological persuasions, is to necessarily encounter a moral and spiritual problem, not just a technocratic one.
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" In Megan Milks's review of Socialist Realism for Bookforum, she notes that a decade ago "many queers were enamored with the alluring radicality of queer negativity" — think Lee Edelman's 2004 polemic No Future, about the queer death drive — but "in the Trump era such grandiose nihilism seems puerile.
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But to look at the trend in these massacres, the spikes of narcissistic acting-out in a time of generally-declining violence, the shared bravado and nihilism driving shooters of many different ideological persuasions, is to necessarily encounter a moral and spiritual problem, not just a technocratic one.
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Cindy Cohn: I mean, I think that the thing that was most important to me, and I talk about it in the foreword, is that we don't just leave people in the valley of despair, and that we talk about the way out, and I think ... That's tech nihilism.
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Where his albums have been a space for hedonism, nihilism and unbridled ego, the live arena for Kanye has always been closer to church—a space for him to breathe, to atone for whatever sins he had confessed to on record, and, above all, to bring people together.
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It helps that Bowie is doing his most interesting work in two decades—while 2013's comeback The Next Day was Bowie's version of a nostalgia project (Bowie's version of a nostalgia project=nihilism), Blackstar is looking backward to his most creative, avant-garde periods and forward at the same time.
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Here we have two books, both searing eyewitness accounts of past ideological fanaticism written by eminent Chinese intellectuals, that clearly fit the description of "historical nihilism," though, Ji Xianlin's "The Cowshed" was actually published in China a couple of decades ago, when things were a bit looser than they are today.
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As a thoughtful introvert—more inclined to visit his hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida's Dali Museum than a Miami strip club—whose verses often find him deep in drug induced nihilism, or tangled in sheets stained with equal quantities of lean and strangers' DNA, Kent Loon is prepared to be misunderstood.
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The abrupt failure of the GOP effort to repeal Obamacare, after months of halting progress, confronts Republicans with a basic choice between decency and nihilism: Will bitter partisanship and ideological inflexibility drive them to use the levers of government to vandalize the health care system, now fully under their control?
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Pieces like "Bidibidobidiboo" — a taxidermy squirrel slumped on a tiny kitchen table with a miniature gun at its feet following an apparent suicide — are easy to laugh off as cutesy nihilism, but lingering on them and learning about their possible sources in Cattelan's biography and psychology makes them much more interesting.
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If her show started out as a smart, quirky, kind-of-meandering news program focusing on Republican misdeeds in the Obama years, it has become, since the 503 election, the gathering place for a congregation of liberals hungering for an antidote to President Trump's nihilism and disregard for civic norms.
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That's partly why I used to think Houellebecq was writing some of the most fascinating (if repugnant and troubling) political satire about rich, liberal democracies — though now that the abjection and nihilism he captured so well is ascendant, I don't know if I could still read him in the same way.
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And by taking Frederick Douglass' powerful speech out of context, Kaepernick does a disservice to a young audience that might be unaware that Douglass gave the speech when slavery was still legal, or that the abolitionist ended his speech not with the dystopian nihilism seen in Kaepernick's video, but with optimism. Sen.
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I suppose that if I'm going to define nihilism as a lack of values—or to use Rauschning's summation of Nazism, a "hostility to the things of the spirit, indifference to truth, indifference to the ethical conceptions of morality, honor, and equity"—I'm obliged to say what I mean by a value.
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China silences podcast and music apps as online crackdown widens On Friday, a total of 26 audio-focused apps were ordered to terminate, suspend services or have talks with regulators as they were investigated and deemed to have spread "historical nihilism" and "pornography," according to a notice posted by the Cyberspace Administration of China. 5.
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But the biggest catharsis came in its insane penultimate episode, "The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)," which has series protagonist Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) confronting his own nihilism, his self-destructive urges, and his biggest safety outlet in one gloriously weird fantasy about setting out to destroy the world.
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Whether it be waffles, biscuits, fried chicken, croissants, or deformed Doritos, the nearly endless range of food items that the fast food industry now considers to be a taco shell may have you thinking that someone out there is conducting a crude experiment in metaphysical nihilism, one that nobody bothered to inform the public about.
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All of these artists pulled from a disparate range of influences: The brutal, yet rhythmic, down-tuned guitars of Pantera; the chugging, funk-influenced bass lines of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More; the unhinged raps of Cypress Hill and Rage Against the Machine; the grooves and nihilism of Nine Inch Nails.
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In keeping with this, the museum currently has a major exhibition, "Punk: Its Traces in Contemporary Art," that examines the aesthetic and political nihilism often at the heart of punk rock, but its permanent collection also emphasizes contributions by women — particularly the performance and video artists of the '60s and '70s — and Spanish artists.
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Speculative genres like horror and science fiction, however, were already prone to dismantling social structures through the element of a dystopia; if they've leveled up in any way in the Trump era, it's been through an increase in spectacle (Ready Player One) and a doubling down on their commitment to nihilism (The Purge: Election Year, Don't Breathe).
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This third cause, which I will call nihilism, helps to account not only for Trump, but also and more importantly for the phenomena he has come to personify (berserker gun violence, climate-change denial, etc.)—all of which were present before he entered the Oval Office and are likely to be around long after he's gone.
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He is the scourge of simplistic, pernicious pieties, including: bias and social oppression as the presumed causes of inequality of outcome, equality of outcome as an unquestioningly desirable and enforced goal, identity as a subjective choice and the sexes as the same, patriarchy, white privilege, implicit bias, safe spaces, affirmative rights, postmodernism, nihilism, neo-Marxism, and identity politics.
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Michelle on the Working Families Party and the Green Party's political nihilism versus the Democratic Socialists of America's political pragmatism "A World of Pain: The Definitive Ranking of Coen Brothers Movies" (The Ringer) I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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I admired "Play It as It Lays"—there isn't a closeted gay adolescent on the planet who wouldn't identify with its nihilism played out in the glare of glamorous privilege—but it didn't thrill me like "A Book of Common Prayer," which has a full-bodied pathos and yearning that Didion's other early fiction lacks or suppresses.
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The alternative is what happened here; people who vaguely wanted to help — inasmuch as the oppressive nihilism of their automated professional constraints had left them with any sympathy at all — but were completely unable to do so, because their software and business processes gave them no tools, no levers with which they might do their job in any meaningful way.
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In the meantime, Wolf Eyes became one of the most important bands working in the genre, alternately collaborating with such experimental luminaries as Merzbow, Anthony Braxton, and Smegma, and bringing their shattering sonic nihilism to the margins of the mainstream, with releases on Sub Pop and Jack White's Third Man Records and an assigned spot on 2004's Lollapalooza tour.
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His monologue and interludes were neither the cringe-worthy disaster that previous hosts such as Neil Patrick Harris and Seth MacFarlane have perpetrated, nor the mildly humorous stylings of Ellen DeGeneres and the caustic hit-and-miss hilarity of last year's host Chris Rock—nor even the blowing-up-the-hospital nihilism of Anne Hathaway and James Franco's dual turn.
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The recent plethora of school shootings makes plain not only the costs of weak gun laws, the risks of untreated mental illness, and the tragic repercussions of rearing children through the proxies of digital media and abandoning them to the tender mercies of the NRA—but also what amounts to the national morality play of this moment: nihilism versus self-sacrificing love.
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The incident proves to be a watershed event for shapeshifter-kind, who have begun to dwindle amid the unsustainability and nihilism of their existence — and thus it is the half-human, half-shapeshifter product of this rape who must find some way to negotiate a new path between the magical brutality of his father's kind and his mother's beautiful mundanity.
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There are episodic mentions of a childhood lived in the vortex of a mother's suffocating love, a perennial reckoning with the fear of attachment, a haunting nihilism most likely fostered by a fatalistic father, and fondly remembered encounters with William Trevor, the late, great Irish short story writer — himself a master of self-effacement — who became a mentor and friend.
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I'm hit by the casual admission of "sometimes I wish I wasn't alive," which I guess is probably a thought that passes through most people's mind at one point or another but that, at the same time, is an awfully dark admission for hard-partying 20-year-old Wayne and a haunting preview of some of the drugged-out nihilism to come.
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There's no denying that one aggressively vocal wing of the Rick and Morty fan-base — the anarchic "caring is for suckers and SJWs" online commenters — has stained this show to some extent, because no matter how much co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Rolland push back against them, one of the pillars of their comedy remains a kind of self-pitying nihilism, framed as worldly enlightenment.
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And not only would Williams need to improve of the shortcomings of Spec Ops: The Line to get there, he would have to be allowed to tell a story that commits to the oppressive nihilism of the Sith order in a way that cuts against the action-driven focus of the Battlefront and Battlefield franchises—which by their nature tend to have a sympathetic stance toward militarism.
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Today, I must rage at the latter category of tech, which is personified by a new... Microsoft hasn't had much luck convincing consumers to switch from Android or iOS to Windows Phone with its own Lumia devices, and it's now hoping third parties will make phones running Windows 10... Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert discuss their first feature, unrequited love, and turning nihilism into beauty.
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As a fiction writer and storyteller, when I decide to kill a character (in a story that doesn't have nihilism as its root, at least), I think a lot about a specific paragraph of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me. In that extended letter to his son, he writes: Games, for their sprawling scale, have historically been a "tight" medium when it comes to characterization.
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In a political era that can zag instantly from madcap to grave, somber introspection to sure-why-not nihilism, the Iowa caucus fiasco appears to have landed with uncommon force, at once deflating volunteers and voters whose earnest participation in democracy had by Tuesday hurtled quickly into tragicomedy and reviving for some anxious Democrats a persistent pang that this moment can feel beyond repair.
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During that time, Krell was also working on a PhD in philosophy at DePaul University, writing a dissertation on nihilism, a fact that became a fixation for music journalists interested in emphasizing the "cerebral" aspects of his music (but which Krell downplays.) "I'm like, 'Yeah, I read all the unpublished letters in German that Jacobi wrote to, I don't know, the pupils of Mendelssohn,'" he said.
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Yes, there is a lot of sloppy software out there, and yes, a lot of smart people keep finding holes, bugs, exploits, and design flaws even in good software, but we are not actually all doomed, and the belief that we are, and that anything connected to the Internet can be and probably has been hacked — an attitude which I like to call "security nihilism" — is spectacularly counterproductive.
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The holiday season is a time of togetherness and American faith—a merciful few weeks where the news cycle slows down and family takes priority over politics—but as I survey the destruction over the past 12 months, the last thing I want to do is pretend that everything is OK. Christmas has always been a bit of a lie, and that was before the current age of debilitating nihilism.
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When Elizabeth thinks about Skittles, a love poem/LSAT analogy sprouts: Speaking of &hearts, Skittles even have the power to save relationships: Humans aren't the only ones getting in on the love: The Skittles Facebook page allows us to express ourselves through artistry, even from a vulnerable age: Of course, art imitates life, so there is also a lot of unintentional nihilism: Rainbows are tasteless, love isn't real, we all die.
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The more pertinent observation about "Fauda" is that its creators, Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, saw how certain circumstances in their world could be synthesized into entertaining, even gripping melodrama — the intimate web of shared history and culture; the normality of high emotion, hatred and nihilism; rigid notions of family and honor; the photogenic density of the weathered Palestinian cities in the West Bank, perfect for car and foot chases.
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The belief that all people are created in God's image is the one thing standing between us and the nihilism of white nationalist, Randian, and Koch brothers wings of the Republican Party that would strip millions of Americans of health care, rip families apart through deportation, deny entry to refugees and the needy, gut the safety net while giving a tax break to billionaires, and reinstate voting restrictions.
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When you have a president who plays footsie with white supremacists and openly yearns to undermine the rule of law, it's easy to lose sight of something: Before Donald Trump ever ran for the White House, a combination of Republican tactical nihilism and design flaws in the Constitution had already led to an alarming breakdown in the mechanics of American democracy — leaving the game systematically rigged against Democrats.
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I did not want to talk about my despicable bits, the parts of my consciousness I'd been dousing in motherwort tincture and pointedly ignoring: the sense of erratic nihilism I'd recently developed, which has me constantly vacillating between the impulse to just give up and the impulse to behave insanely because nothing matters anyway, or the fact that I'm deeply bored with my life, stressed and aimless, but too afraid to make a significant change.
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Nearly every wrestler belongs to a stable, from the Los Ingobernables de Japon, a group of Japanese wrestlers who blend Lucha Libre names and costumes with a Death Note-style Nihilism, to the Bullet Club, one of the hottest acts in wrestling at large, a group of mostly Anglophone wrestlers who do villainous things with a distinctly American bent (talk trash during matches, cut promos before and after matches, ham for the camera).
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In Angela Merkel's Europe right now, that should mean making peace with Brexit, ceasing to pursue ever further political centralization by undemocratic means, breaking up the '60s-era intellectual cartels that control the commanding heights of culture, creating space for religious resistance to the lure of nihilism and suicide — and accepting that the days of immigration open doors are over, and the careful management of migrant flows is a central challenge for statesmen going forward.
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His quote from the TLS (found on the Guggenheim's exhibition site for ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow) reads in full: From the beginning we looked upon the term [ZERO] not as an expression of nihilism—or as a dada-like gag, but as a word indicating a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as at the countdown when rockets take off—zero is the incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new.
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The project is ten tracks of experimental, squeaky pop with a vivid streak of nihilism, most of them maximizing flash-in-the-pan feelings: "Roll With Me" is the wicked glint of possibility when someone shoots you The Look across a dancefloor, "Drugs" is the all-consuming yearning that only presents itself at the crush-stage of a relationship, and "3AM" is the internal conflict that arises when they drunk dial you after it all goes to shit.
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In light of the TV that followed Twin Peaks, specifically the anti-hero dramas and surreal dark fantasy that claim Twin Peaks as an inspiration, the unleashing of Dirty Cooper functioned as a harbinger of bleak TV. If I had to take an early stab at what the new Twin Peaks is all about, I'd say it's the story of a culture gone mean and cold from unchecked corruption, and a pop culture exhausted by a fascination with nihilism that's run its course.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas) or Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass), is essentially a dogma of nihilism.
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Not "wasted" time, because watching time burn after the Diptyque candle on your self-care altar catches the dry corner of an hour or a day can be the most luxurious pointlessness (a pillow-topped nihilism, a rarefied moment of sanctioned privilege-bukakki), and not dumbtime, like peeing and cleaning and grooming (the reason we made skincare into church is because skincare was so boring), but misspent, like scrolling, like monkey-minding, like doing everything you can to get away from the wildflowering part of yourself, and from the moment, so, from time.
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