Subject: Re: Overcoming nihilism
Seems like it's an open secret that there's a place beyond nihilism. Methinks one has to go there personally in order to see the sights.

Gotta take issue with this, though, if I'm reading you correctly: "The Soviet Union had an ingenious solution. . . .Spiritually it was highly successful."

Socialist realism strikes me as about the most spiritually bankrupt form of art humankind has devised. And sinking below capitalist bombast is a real accomplishment!

cheers,
db