nihilism
Keely Adler and
nihilism
Awash in a bleak mediascape, I had simply assumed that optimism had been long exiled to the realm of corny naivete, gone the way of “Live, Laugh, Loving” and #Girlbossing. So it came as a shock when my TikTok feed started filling up with posts about the “Indomitable Human Spirit.”
Dirt • Dirt: The indomitable human spirit
Atlas’ loneliness is the awareness that there are gulfs between separate consciousnesses that cannot be bridged
Lonelinesses
“Nothing. You began as nothing and you will end as nothing. And in between—everything, and nothing. In between—joy and sorrow, beauty and decay. Everything yours to partake of yours to bear. Yours to see, to know, to give birth to—and to let go. None of it yours to have.
Not even you are yours to have.... See more
Neri Oxmanx.comOnce you start looking for disassociation, it’s everywhere. It’s in the way we consume media, and how so much of what we consume is so targeted now, and you have to work hard to get another perspective, and we all spend time buying products that we know are not necessarily coming from an ethical place or arriving through an ethical process. But
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • The Feast of Severance
death salience + unfazed resiliency that are unspoken drivers behind so many behaviors today.
ZINE • 3_Trends_Vol.15: Sarah Unger: Memento Mori, Natural Awe + Four Day Week
The shock we’re experiencing now can’t be summarized as present shock, which happens when we become blindly obsessed with the present moment. Nor is it a form of future shock, which happens when we feel that change is taking place too quickly. Instead, the shock we’re feeling today is an affront to our most basic understanding of reality. And the... See more