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Humor

In Defense of Humorous Nihilism

John Marmysz looks on the funny side of absolute nothingness.

God is dead. Nothing matters. All is meaningless. Nothing is true. These are the sorts of laments often associated with nihilism, a philosophical perspective premised on the belief that the world is incurably imperfect, flawed, defective.