A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera:
What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu!
Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, sc. 1 (sc. 1), l. 76ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)
More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit; for all things must bow to Nature’s law, and soon enough you must vanish into nothingness, like Hadrian and Augustus. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are, remembering that it is your duty to be a good man. Do without flinching what man’s nature demands; say what seems to you most just — though with courtesy, modesty, and sincerity.
[Τὸ πρῶτον μὴ ταράσσου: πάντα γὰρ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ὅλου φύσιν καὶ ὀλίγου χρόνου οὐδεὶς οὐδαμοῦ ἔσῃ, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ Ἁδριανὸς οὐδὲ Αὔγουστος. ἔπειτα ἀτενίσας εἰς τὸ πρᾶγμα ἴδε αὐτὸ καὶ συμμνημονεύσας ὅτι ἀγαθόν σε ἄνθρωπον εἶναι δεῖ καὶ τί τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἡ φύσις ἀπαιτεῖ, πρᾶξον τοῦτο ἀμεταστρεπτὶ καὶ εἰπέ, ὡς δικαιότατον φαίνεταί σοι: μόνον εὐμενῶς καὶ αἰδημόνως καὶ ἀνυποκρίτως.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 5 (8.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2676…
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Dogmatiikan professori Olli-Pekka Vainio kirjoittaa Areiopagilla pessimismistä, https://www.areiopagi.fi/2025/10/miksi-pessimismi-on-viisas-kaunis-ja-onnellisuutta-lisaava-elamanfilosofia/
Väärinkäsitysten oikomisen ja joidenkin määrittelyjen kautta päädytään siihen, että "pessimismi onkin mitä hienoin, fiksuin ja kaunein elämänfilosofia, joka ei johda ankeaan synkistelyyn, vaan hyvyyden, kauneuden ja totuuden varjelemiseen". Maltillisen pessimistisen asenteen omaksumiseen löytyy niin käytännöllisiä, poliittisia, psykologisia, episteemisiä kuin esteettisiäkin perusteita. Optimismi pikemmin osoittautuu ongelmaksi.
#pessimismi #pessimism #optimismi #optimism #nihilism #hope #toivo #life #filosofia #philosophy #areiopagi #stubb #fatalism #skepticism #despair #epatoivo #positive
Poof! not proof: The Epstein Files Vanish
#TheList #Coverup #ACAB
Mutahar - #BlackPill #Blackmail
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YCCQzXmSk8w
#BlackBall #Fatalism
https://incels.wiki/w/Blackpill
America This Week 7/7/25
https://www.racket.news/p/america-this-week-monday-livestream
* #Bondi clips at beginning
the message: “spit in the face of the public” and the Elite as court of Versailles
https://rumble.com/v6vvwba-saagar-enjeti-elons-america-party-iran-and-jeffrey-epstein-is-apparently-in.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
#TCN #Zionism
It was great to present my work on fatalism and climate action in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in a session on "Emotions in the transition to a no-carbon society" at the Global Tipping Points conference @uniexeter.
I talked about high levels of fatalism - beliefs that the future is predetermined and that human agency is pontless - in Bougainville, how this already reduces climate action, and wonder how this could be a barrier to harnessing potential positive tipping points in populations truly left behind.
Here are my slides 👉https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NIEhEWA2IC-4V2FC2ybCLFBmnbcO0ta4p-nhiiTOaIc/edit?usp=sharing
I also learned from @laurafoggrogers the importance of triggering positive emotions to fully engage the population at large, while Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive proposes a very interesting paradigm combining fear, outrage and desire, drawn from her book "The language of climate politics". I think everyone agrees that one size-fits-all type of communication is not optimal and that tailoring the message to the recipient is very important.
#DrJohnRowlatt discussed about how to best engage the UK population, and elderly people in particular, to switch to low-carbon heating systems. @larasningrum_dianty talked about the potential for narratives of hope in low-income countries and in general.
I look forward to continuing this discussion. 🙏 co-panelists & attendants.
#ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #Fatalism #Bougainville #PapuaNewGuinea #Melanesia #Research #FieldResearch
Me, reacting to most everything happening lately:
#Fatalism #Resignation #Surrender #TooLittleTooLate #Whatevs
#naomiklein #oligarchs #oligarchy #mars #musk #thiel #andreesson #armageddon #libertarian #libertarianism #freedom #democracy #ai #crypto #cryptocurrency #cryptocurrencies #tech #techbros #technofeudalism #feudalism #apocalypse #apocalyptic #fascism #zionists #zionism #huckabee #hegseth #vought #project2025 #fatalism #theobros #eugenics
#naomiklein #oligarchs #oligarchy #mars #musk #thiel #andreesson #armageddon #libertarian #libertarianism #freedom #democracy #ai #crypto #cryptocurrency #cryptocurrencies #tech #techbros #technofeudalism #feudalism #apocalypse #apocalyptic #fascism #zionists #zionism #huckabee #hegseth #vought #project2025 #fatalism #theobros #eugenics
Maybe fascism and killing a few billion (yes) people really is the answer to saving humankind.
I will weep for all that die. And I will hope for the future humans that they rise again and against.
#words ... Help a guy out here. My daughter is writing a dissertation and she wants to put in a word that describes the #attitude a person might display when they're told they have only a short time to live and they respond by going "ah well I may as well go out and spend it all and have fun before I die because you can't take it with ya". #fatalism springs to mind but we're convinced that there's a better #english word for it. Anyone?
THE END - A short story
A handful of decrepit old men decide to enslave the world in #tyranny and suffering.
A few more join them in hopes of getting a piece of the action.
Many more carry out their orders, telling themselves they aren't responsible for their actions, hoping to be slayed last.
The rest sigh and stare at their feet, waiting to be slaughtered.
The End
#politics #nihilism #fatalism #pacifism #apathy #civicduty #democracy #notmyproblem
The average person is extremely unlikely to personally engage and call out #Trump #Musk or #Zuckerberg , compared to doing the same with your neighbors, friends, and family.
If you can't even stand up against fascist #apps on your phone, or that hateful relative at the dining table, what chance is there of standing up to fascist dictators?
#socialmedia #journalism #politics #fatalism #apathy #grassroots #socialresponsibility
To Fight #Billionaire-Backed #Fascism, We Need #Grit and #Solidarity—Not #Hope.
This deeply perilous time requires #realism—but not #fatalism. In the worst of times, #solidarity is most needed.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
No time for #fatalism: The #left must #unite to #fight #fascism.
#Thisisnotadrill. #Fascism is on the #ballot
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/04/no-time-for-fatalism-the-left-must-unite-to-fight-fascism/
The best way to ruin my day is to roll your eyes and sigh, "well, it's not really worth trying to make things better at this point"
https://megaphone.link/VMP9661644115
#podcast #cynicism #fatalism #pessimism
A quotation from Omar Khayyam:
«
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/37611/
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