Our nihilistic society A driver of a pick-up truck in downtown Manhattan drives backward up a one-way street while talking on his cellphone. People are yelling at him to stop but he doesn’t hear them. His truck hits a woman who is crossing the street and kills her. He is not arrested. The fact that he was using a cellphone while driving a truck backward in a one-way street and killed someone and is not arrested for this does not become an occasion for outrage or even questions. The media and everyone else, including the dead women’s grief-stricken colleagues...