Politics, Philosophy, CultureFebruary 19, 2008 11:23 pm

Fascism Sucks!
I fear that this may well sum up the contribution of my generation to the collective wisdom of the ages - crass cynicism and a pretension to wit that, faced with unencumbered self-indulgence and no meta-narrative, knows nothing other than to smirk irreverently at the horror of it all.

Or, to put it bluntly, isn’t that clever.

Sartre determined that suicide was the answer to the nihilism he had embraced. Camus used heroic language to call men to rage against the meaninglessness of life. But my generation, the post-everythings, merely sigh condescendingly and slap a banally witty sticker on their car just before going to the mall to buy their Che Guevara t-shirt.

Culture 10:53 am

Good thoughts from Nancy Wilson on the failure of feminism here. Thanks to my sister Tara.