Its nihilism and its unbalanced lack of basic trust are haunting.

困扰之处在于虚无和基本信任的严重缺乏。

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With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists itself.

和虚无主义没有论争的可能。因为讲逻辑的虚无主义者怀疑和他进行争辩的对方是否存在，因而也就不能肯定他自己是否存在。

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The answer, he says, is a "strange national nihilism" in which disasters are celebrated and triumphs denigrated.

他说，答案就是一种“奇怪的民族虚无主义”，在这种主义看来灾害值得庆祝，胜利该被诋毁。

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Ayer sets up the gang as the essence of self-destroying evil nihilism as a working method and a game and the two cops as order and good will personified.

NEWYORKER: End of Watch

The campaign of sectarian killing is beginning to seem like mindless nihilism, rather some sort of clear-cut political strategy.

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There is a strange kind of nihilism in the president's approach, it's a closed, self-referential loop.

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