Kath Blair's List: Map of Nihilism & Postmodernism

• • This is a film by Beckett that explores existentialism and nihility
    visually -- I think it's a really great illustration of The Gaze (and
    quite funny).
• • This is a film by Beckett that explores existentialism and nihility visually -- I think it's a really great illustration of The Gaze (and quite funny).
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• This is the science  in nihilism, it's an understanding that  complexity is just the interaction of multiple  simplicities.
• Just showing a  thing as it is and even calling it what it is has  significant impact within the context of our  American(ized) culture where every product and  idea must be obfuscated by the smokescreen of  'spin' and propaganda;
• The effort to  symbolically impose rational order to the seeming  disorder
• Roots lead to the superstructure
• The populace is  trained by TV and pop-culture to remain  unfocused, incapable of the coherent thought so  threatening to authority, for any length of time,  or figuring anything out besides which button  changes the volume and which the channel.
• So a symbol is only  as meaningful as the entity for which it  represents; a voodoo doll is just a bag of rags  without the culture and the religion to turn it  into something more.

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