Sunday, January 02, 2005
Most cryptic help-wanted ad ever
In the NYT's Job Market on Sunday found this help wanted ad for an "Energetic, imaginative magazine":
I sent my resume and clips, but all I got back was a link to this site, which helpfully has answers to the question:
EDITORIAL. NO NIHILISTS NEED APPLY
I sent my resume and clips, but all I got back was a link to this site, which helpfully has answers to the question:
"How can you do anything if you don't believe in anything. How can you get out of bed. It seems like a depressing and debilitating cosmology."Really quite reasonable for a nihilist, huh?
A. I think that some people may find a godless, chaotic universe a hellish place in which to live. But there are others who would find an orderly, god ruled universe equally hellish. Not all people have the same needs. Nihilism suits mine.