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Is America losing its religion?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Leftovers - What Is It All About?
Reza Sayah: I've always been interested in nihilism as a spiritual and a political problem. The premise of the leftovers is that 1% of the population just... 2%? 2% sorry. Disappears just off the face of the earth. And no one knows why. There's this kind of quasi-nihilistic cult that emerges, and they're leaning into the screw it. Nothing matters if this can have an energy. They're super aggressively tossing all the despair into everyone's faces and making them eat it. But we were trying to say was, it doesn't matter what the crisis is. Human beings will just go back to normal. We'll pretend that
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