Word: nihilistic
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Allen's making things easy for himself. In Sleeper, it's the futuroids who have beliefs; Allen is the nihilist, spurning art, science, religion, political solutions. Much of the satire in the film arises out of this, and Allen probably really means it when he says he believes only in sex and death. This undercuts some of his punch. The future sets up America's excesses, and Allen knocks them down with simple irreverence, a refusal to take them seriously. There's no room for the subtle snipe when the targets are set up like sitting ducks...
...Vandervane, 54, violinist, composer and conductor, is a familiar Amis character, a clowning nihilist with a middle finger ever at the ready. "Rage at absent, or largely imaginary foes," writes Amis, "was part of his life style...
...journals, like Problemi and Praxis, operate outside the system. This may not be because these writers are so alienated, but because they feel themselves above the activist approach. I spent some time with the bearded director of Problemi in his modest Ljubljana office. He described himself as a "political nihilist, not interested, and not searching for feasible solutions." He admitted that most journals of this sort are too intellectual to have a broad-based appeal...
...general, and Kropotkin in particular, were not wreckers but visionaries, more concerned with postulating a new society of individual freedom than in the momentary task of destroying the established one. Today's students must realize, adds Artist Barnett Newman in the foreword, that "revolution is more than a Nihilist Happening." They must face up to the question Kropotkin constantly posed: After revolution, what...
...Southeast Asia develops constructively, we could be useful as a convenient source of expertise and a channel through which these countries can get foreign exchange. But if it goes the other way, chaotic and nihilist, then I hope that we shall have enough wisdom and skill to isolate the forces of destruction. As the Dark Ages descended on Europe, places like Venice maintained relatively civilized standards of life. I would hope that such light from Singapore would eventually help to brighten up the area again...