...the band members sweat hard enough to earn their pretensions, and maybe even their nihilism (rock critic Dave Marsh, reviewing the band XTC's album Go).
Contradiction (not always deliberate) between behavior and espoused principle, to such a degree that all possible espoused principle is voided
Meaning "nothingism" from Latin term nihil "nothing" A true Nihilistic denies or rejects all values and meanings This would be the ultimate skeptic
the view that nothing exists, that nothing has value; the social view that conditions are so bad that they should be destroyed and replaced by something better
Nihilism is a belief which rejects all political and religious authority and current ideas in favour of the individual. + nihilist nihilists ni·hil·ist Why wasn't Weber a nihilist?. Any of various philosophical positions that deny that there are objective foundations for human value systems. In 19th-century Russia the term was applied to a philosophy of skepticism that opposed all forms of aestheticism and advocated utilitarianism and scientific rationalism; it was popularized through the figure of Bazarov in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862). Rejecting the social sciences, classical philosophical systems, and the established social order, nihilism rejected the authority of the state, the church, and the family. It gradually became associated with political terror and degenerated into a philosophy of violence
belief that there is no certain truth, and even if there were, it could not be communicated from one person to another The Sophists were nihilists, as was Neitszche
The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality
the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal
a world view that nothing exists or is knowable or valuable; particularly a denial of any ground for objective or moral truth
a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake complete denial of all established authority and institutions
A doctrine holding that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable for its own sake independent of any constructive program or possibility