I believe a nihilistic outlook on life sort of develops from a very logical, rational mind. I'd like to find some sort of meaning in that, but you know

We agree with things like this because we're all born into a culture that is nihilistic to the core. We then try to walk back from that when we learn that morality has a biological basis. We try to make sense of that, and reconcile it with our culture. It creates a cognitive dissonance, because we cannot believe that a system of values we have been internalizing from birth could be wrong. It FEELS right, so we want it to be.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667837

I read "the meme of modernity" and it wasn't nihilistic, but it was some stupid ass self actualization thing, complete with made up science.

SAGE has been used.