There is a difference between politics and art.

I've recently encountered a few Nihilist theories concerning acts for their own sake, or, rather, for the temporary liberation which they allow for. I feel like this hazards that pure protest can become like an addictive compulsion. A relentless drive to destroy, to me, seems only to be self-destructive. Such acts fail to cope with that they are born out of tragedy. That social alienation and anomie have made a person suicidal is nothing to celebrate. The whole thing kind of reminds me of the book Crash. Has anyone else ever met a Nihilist? How should a person cope with the absurdity of the human condition? What axioms can be levelled so that revolt does not become a form of suicide? Does Nihilism describe a real human plight or is it merely pathological? If Nihilism is just resultant of an exacerbated coping mechanism, then, how is a person to cope with what I would argue to be quite natural angst?