Word: nihilisme
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The Pig Iron Theatre Company’s performance of Hell Meets Henry Halfway in the Loeb Experimental Theatre was an exercise in nihilism taken to the extreme. At some points, the production almost begged the question, “Who cares the least about life?”
To cap off their residency, Pig Iron will perform Adriano Shaplin’s “Hell Meets Henry Halfway”, a dark comedy centering on nihilism which is adapted from Witold Gombrowicz’s 1939 novel Possessed.
That is not to pretend that the U.S. undertook Iraq for reasons of pure humanitarianism-as America undertook the rescue of other Muslim peoples (with varying success) in Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo. We would never have invaded Iraq to depose Saddam without 9/11. After 9/11, we finally understood that helping...
Perhaps even more destructively, the attempt to reconcile the hedonistic lifestyle of the American nouveau riche with “authentic” ghetto nihilism has created impossible aspirations of “ghettofabulousness” for young people. In the fantasy world of the “ghettofabulous,?...
These individuals celebrate black intelligence and creativity and provide a veritable light at the end of the tunnel. They have combined “Ghetto CNN” realism with early hip-hop’s vitality and an American entrepreneurial spirit. They showcase ways that we can use hip...