"'The fight against climate change,' said the tenured professor, 'is already lost. What’s left to us is to cultivate new modes of becoming.' The audience nodded sagely and clapped. Cheeks distended with Goldfish, I clapped too."

Apocalypse
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For some professors, a shallow, fashionable nihilism is all the rage.

“The fight against climate change,” said the tenured professor, “is already lost. What’s left to us is to cultivate new modes of becoming.”

The audience nodded sagely and clapped. Cheeks distended with Goldfish, I clapped too.