Existential nihilism and despair in three songs and three philosophers

What is moving will be still What is gathered will disperse What has been built up will collapse Andrew Bird, “Tin Foil” (Fingerlings 3, 2006) These lyrics are an adapted quote from Lama Sogyal Rinpoche’s Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Impermanence (aniccā in Pali) is an important idea in many forms of Buddhism. It…