But Meaning 2.0—modernism—hasn’t exactly panned out either. “We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars,” Durden continues. “But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” For the frustrated middle children of history, nihilism—the view that none of this matters—is their refuge of last resort.
