“You know, gang, there is only one person who has the answer to all our problems, social, political ecological, cultural … More
Category: nihilism
Species Questions
The first question for modern humanity is this: why do toasters include a setting of “10”? Is there a human … More
How We “Feel” More Important Than What Actually Happens
Helen MacDonald, a feted a naturalist writer and academic, is concerned, as she writes in a short review of Elizabeth … More
FUTILISTS: SOCIETY’S FIRST DESPONDERS”
Before we start, two representations: “I MUST BE THE ONLY MACARTHUR GENIUS AWARD GRANTEE THAT HAS TO KEEP DOING THIS” … More
Of Course We Were Warned
Some of us are more in tune with the innumerable large-scale factors that go into the entity we can call … More
2019 IFN NIHILIST BOOK AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
The Institut fr. Nihilism (IFN) has announced the winner of its annual Nihilism Book Award for 2019: Nicholas P. Money, … More
Happy Extinction!
That’s the bumper sticker for the mounting triumph of nihilism – a small oval, with these words in green in … More
Franzen Now Public Nihilist Enemy #1 – Though He is Novice Semi-Nihilist at Best
Oh boy, there’s a donnyfuffle around “rich, white, comfortable” marginally famous fictionist Jonathan Franzen’s “peevish” “navel-gazing” attempt at climate truth-telling … More
Two Sharks
BIG SHARK: Listen, I’ve looked at the way we’re going, and it doesn’t look good. We’re not going to make … More
Never Trust a TED-Talker: Rutger Bregman’s “Utopia for Realists”
Another sort-of leftist makes the bestseller list: Dutch journalist/academic/TEDtalker Rutger Bregman’s breezy, pop-sci “Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build … More