Our cultivated, high society set only gorge themselves on Beckett, Cioran, Artaud and all today’s hallowed forms of cynicism and nihilism the better to evade any analysis of the current forms of despair. They denounce with the greatest moral and political energy ever present instance of nihilism, of the nihility of our values, while ‘culturally’ savouring the heroic but anachronistic forms of nihilism and the inhuman. They glorify the accursed share, but keep the holy water handy.

Baudrillard, Cool Memories II