I received this email from one of my favorite Indy magazines, Adbusters. Check it out:

Nihilism has long been an abstraction: the dark muse of poetry, philosophy and art. But now we are confronted with the moment when this experiment of ours on Planet Earth meets its spectacular and terrifying end, when civilization reaches its summit and begins to tumble into permanent decline. This global meltdown has wrought a new breed of nihilism – eco-nihilism, psycho-nihilism, apocalypto-nihilism – for which no philosophy has ever been written, no remedy ever prescribed … Adbusters #84, Nihilism & Revolution, hits newsstands this week.

We are living in some crazy, contradictory times – every aspect of our lives is in upheaval. Our neoclassical economic model has proven a giant failure, so we’re devoting Adbusters #85 to exploring humanistic, ecological and no-growth alternatives. It’s going to be a big, fat 144 page issue. We want your stories … all the triumphs and disasters that come with living in (and breaking free of) the apocalyptic framework of megacorporate capitalism. Send your tales, epiphanies and laments to editor@adbusters.org.

One of the reasons I appreciate Adbusters is because they are a no bullshit organization/magazine that senses things are seriously screwed-up with the world, especially the Western world. But as a follower of Christ, I believe God provided rescue for all of humanity in Christ through the event of the Cross, and will re-create and restore the world back to the way He originally created it.

So how might we respond to Adbusters and the plenty of others who share the same hopeless, dystopic, nihilistic view of our contemporary world?