JG Ballard’s 7 top tips for nihilists

Damien Walter
Feb 2, 2025

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The master of British science fiction has much to teach us

JG Ballard’s top tips for embracing nihilism

— learn to enjoy a good car crash

— revel in the collapse of middle class society

— treat your neighbors like the vacuous consumers they are

— realise that modernity is just a smear of concrete and steel over the gaping maw of eternity

— BBQ a labrador

— inhabit the interstitial spaces between motorways and convention centres — look for abandoned….swimming pools

A classic from the Science Fiction archives for your Sunday

🔗👇👇👇👇👇

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Damien Walter
Damien Walter

Written by Damien Walter

I tell stories about the future, technology and culture. Published by The Guardian, WIRED, BBC etc.

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