Aha, so everything?? If they were nasty about it would they be Nihilists?

Well, not quite. Their point was simply that you have to see through the bullsiht and decide what is/was appropriate .

Somewhere between nihilism and libertarianism, I suppose.


Edit: In 60's terms.

But thats life isnt it, cutting through the bullshit. Does that make me a Dutch Spectacularist?


PS There's a business near here called Nihil's Collision Repair. That appeals to me, though auto wreckers would be better.

Well, basically, yes.

F**k google, and welcome to the club.

The Trebek bit, yes. The slogan, no. It was on the wall of a roundabout at Harrow on the Hill for years.

http://davidgalbraith.org/category/buygones/

http://books.google.ca/books?id=uIRi...um=2&ct=result

I like that the writer of the first comment in the first link has mis-spelled "genius".

Well, blow me.

Q is quite a good novel, though. I must confess I didn't know about the Italian situationist connection when I first read it, and wondered for a moment whether I'd wildly underestimated the intellect of your average Serie A footballer to the extent that he could hold forth on early Protestant uprisings in 17th century Holland and Germany...

Yes, after Rich's post I did a bit of research myself. Turns out the spectacularists were an offshoot of the situationists after all.

Whey man, yer larn summit every day, like.

(Although I've never come across Q, except of course on Star whatsit Voyager)

It was Blue Sky Thinking last I remember.

"mind mapping" was the politically correct alternative we were encouraged to use!