“…the Nazis, after-all, were ultimately ‘positivists’ promoting a pro-German/pro-Aryan world view that these brooding ‘degenerate nihilists’ would have logically dismissed (and in the case of Thomas Mann, did dismiss) as self-evidently illusory.
And I wish to conclude my point evoking the script of Von Trier’s own film here. At one point in Melancholia, the increasingly depressed Justine (played by Kirsten Dunst) tells her sister Claire (played by Charlotte Gainsburg) her more traditionalist (and more optimistic) sister: ‘We will all die, and no one will miss us.’ How exactly would one set out to build a Thousand Year Reich on such emblematically nihilistic sentiments?”
