Nihilism on the Information Highway: Anonymity vs. Commitment in the Present Age Four

In the section of A Literary Review, written in 1846, entitled ‘The Present Age’1 Kierkegaard warns that his age is characterized by a disinterested reflection and curiosity that level all differences of status and value. In his terms, this detached reflection levels all qualitative distinctions. Everything is equal in that nothing matters enough that one would be willing to die for it. Nietzsche gave this modern condition a name; he called it nihilism.