[Baron Morte]

well done the mentioning of dadaism. Infact it was a war (world war I) that started this whole concept of all for nothing.

Despite all the progress, technological prowess and consistent evolution of europe, in a matter of months it was thrown in a senseless barbaric bloodshed, and for what? gaining or losing a few meters of muddy, infertile useless soil.

If it wasnt for WWI there would be no Freud or NIetzche. The lack of faith in progress, or even that mankind was evolving, was what made possible the dadaism, and the arisal of currents of thought that show humans to be capable of terrible things, despite all the body of knowledge accumulated through.
The so called modernism came in stark contrast of Positivism, by saying that humans were not geting necessarily better by learning, studying or research more.

Therefore, there is actually no sense in trying to evolve, trying to achieve things. As the play Waiting for Godot says, albeit being more of a existialist post war period show, life itself is pointless, and we are all alone in this world.

therefore a toilet in the middle of a room is perfect reasonable ( the most famous dadaist work of art is a porcelain mictorium hanging around a regular room, am i rite?)