You say "nihilism" and that's precisely right. Everyone should read "The Revolution of Nihilism: A Warning to the West", written in 1939 by a former Nazi supporter and ex-mayor of Danzig, Hermann Rauschning. It's a free download. Today's "revolution" is like Nazism in that it is essentially unprincipled and amoral, a faux-revolution - because however problematic most revolutions end up being, the French and Russians and Haitians had some real reasons to revolt. Combine this with the authentic, if illegitimate ideological conviction of today's "revolutionaries" and you get a thoroughly postmodern stew of meaningless but alluring abstractions, put into place through the combined efforts of fanatical ideologues and cynical careerists. It's truly the worst of both worlds. It's not revolutionary so much as itself counter-revolutionary, because it's attempting to overturn the one truly successful revolution in history, the American, 250 years after the fact. It's also no coincidence that, for all its blather about "indigenous rights", it demonizes the only successful repatriation of indigenous land in history, that of the Jews of Israel (also no coincidence that Israel, unlike the surrounding states that progressives prefer, is a pluralist democracy - everything they claim to espouse).