A greater and greater dependence upon instrumental reason creates an elite that is irresponsible to the idea of a common culture. The overriding tendency is loss. Loss of cultural value and of value itself. For when everything has become a measure of something else, whether it be information or economic exchange, the remembrances of the individual, the basis of their sympathetic relation with the world, is forgotten, disallowed. The result in art and culture is the turning of the linearity of quest and the articulation of meaning into the uroboros of solipsism, pastiche, and appropriations, - history is liquefied , but there is really nothing left to drink.
Suicidal nihilists know that there is no longer any substantive purpose to their willing.
But they would always prefer to go on willing than not to act at all. They're creating again and again the exterminism of human memory, the exterminism of human sensibility, the exterminism of individuated human intelligence, the exterminism of human morality itself. When information ceases its active role and when its coherence breaks down, the organism enters into a state of decay and breaks up into a mere collection of inanimate components. But Still The Problem of Souls Meaning goes back to a root that signifies 'opinio' or 'intention' and is closely related to the word moaning. An endless system of deferrals transpires between these social and individual meanings and the imposing reality of biological wants that they of necessity hinge upon, within the psychological, evolutionary, yet ephemeral self .