so here i sit at the front desk at aquarius, hard at work perusing through the friday updates on the Surfing World blog, when i should come across a review of Canadian magazine Adbusters.
adbusters was always a favourite of my fellow higher educationees during media discussions, and if im honest a constant go-to of my own when having trouble finding something deep and insightful to write an essay about.
sean doherty, who wrote the review, calls the mag; "a little hostile and a lot nihilistic..."
nihilistic, fantastic word. and one i absolutely had to look up because i was pretty fuzzy on what it actually meant. this word led to the discovery of another word: anomie, a sociological term meaning "personal feeling of a lack of norms; normlessness. It describes the breakdown of social norms and values."
i feel smarter just for having discovered these two words, though at present time have no need to use either of them.
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