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Why Did the Future Arrive First in Russia? | Peter Pomerantsev

Hidden Forces

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Is There a Coherence to Nihilism?

Nihilism is still a coherent wold view. It's more a masquerade then you're constantly indulging in. I supposethat the symptom of this world view is that facts lose their meaning, because all ideas are instrumentalized. They only, you know, they're not a thing in itself in this world. And if anything, there's this kind of celebration of sending a big middle finger up to factual anguage and revelling in nonsense speech. That was one of my friends' agonies for liberal friends in russia. You know, alreadly believed in holding truth to power; now i'm like: What does it mean? We live in o

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