Contemporary design doesn't just reflect nihilism, it creates it.
Sterile, minimal design actively produces cultural nihilism by stripping meaning, replacing narrative and conviction with metrics, blandness, and algorithmic feeds.
In the 21st century, despite living in a golden age of information and connection, many experience a growing crisis of purpose and an overwhelming sense of loneliness.
MAGA's Class Warfare Against Knowledge Workers Is Personal
The target of the administration's campaign is a stratum of society that's sometimes called the professional managerial class, or the PMC, although there's not one universal moniker that MAGA applies to the group it is now crushing.