There's an article by
Rachel Newsome in the November issue of
i-D, where she discusses how the fucked up celebs are a picture on this whole generation. "2007 has been a classic year for the young, famous and painfully nihilistic," she says. Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, Pete Doherty. They've all gone off the hook on drugs and self-destruction. Cory Kennedy got famous for looking wasted and messed-up. When did being fucked up become so fucking cool? When? When?
How?Excerpt from nihilism article on Wikipedia; "Nihilism (from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical position, sometimes called an anti-philosophy, which argues that Being, especially past and current human existence, is without objective meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. (...) ...therefore, life has, in a sense, no truth, and no action is objectively preferable to any other."
The catwalk is loaded with black and pvc, scientism have knocked religion off the top spot, unlimited freedom has taken over tradition. "No longer reliant on the existense of God, any truth counts as long as we're true to ourselves." We try so hard to be different, but turn out exactly the same. Indie-boys embrace their skinny jeans and converse shoes, emo kids look all the same in their black fringes.
I think that we, or at least I, seek instant karma in the immediacy of the present. For me it works just fine, but it can also cause anxiety and depression because it fails to answer why we are here (I personally don't give a shit, as long as I have fun). The Romantic thinker Schopenhauer said something like this; "You could believe in enjoying the present, because that's all that is real and everything else merely imaginary. But at the same time it's stupid, because when a moment ceases to exist, it vanishes as completely as a dream, and cannot be worthy of any serious effort."
So when we're all well aware that we're doomed, why not turn our mischieves into an aesthetic? Yeah, why not. "Nihilism is beauty" says the manifesto of the Centre For Nihilist And Nihilism Studies. "If the morals and values of the dominant class have no basis other than to reinforce their control and self-interests, then aren't we free to ignore their concernsand instead do what serves us best?" Maybe we are.
Confusing stuff, yes. No wonder we're fucked.
