User reports show that the increasingly mandatory MyDigital ID app is broken and incompetent.
Auditor General's report shows millions in unaccounted and mismanaged project funds.
Malaysians: "All govt apps oso liddat wat, biasa la."
Case closed.
#fatalism
A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
I think I am pretty much of a fatalist. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Essay (1951-12), “Growth that Starts from Thinking,” on Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe, CBS Radio
More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/48…
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All-new in SEP, Jason Marsh's Evolutionary Approaches to Religion, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-evolutionary/
Davin Hunt and Linda Zagzebski have also revised their "classical" entry on Foreknowledge and Free Will, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/. I still remember studying that article for the first time. The theme was of no interest to me, but Zagzebski's skill in thinking aloud just fascinated a philosophically infested fellow earthling.
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📝 Plot:
Trapped in his small apartment at dawn, a factory worker reflects on the chain of events that led him there. Through fragmented flashbacks, love, jealousy, manipulation, and despair unfold, revealing how fate and circumstance closed in on him. The film builds a haunting portrait of working-class life, doomed romance, and moral inevitability, becoming a defining statement of poetic realism on the eve of war.
🎬 Le jour se lève [Daybreak] (1939)
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#FilmNoir
#FrenchCinema
#Fatalism
#WorkingClass
#LoveAndObsession
#PreWarCinema
#MarcelCarne
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2026-01-29Fatalism
Fatalism is the philosophical belief that all events are predetermined & inevitable, making human “free will” basically irrelevant to the ultimate outcome.
Determinism, predestination, & fatalism are often used interchangeably. But there are nuances:
- Determinism: The belief that every event is caused by preceding events & the laws of nature. If you knew the position of every atom in the universe, you could predict the future. It’s about cause & effect.
- Predestination: A theological concept (like we saw with the Calvinists) where a sovereign God has decreed the end from the beginning. It’s about divine will.
- Fatalism: The belief that “whatever will be, will be” (Amor Fati), regardless of the causes or divine decrees. It suggests that even if you try to change the path, you’ll still arrive at the pre-set destination.
In the Greco-Roman world, Fatalism wasn’t a theory. It was a cosmic reality. The Greeks envisioned fate as 3 sisters: Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the allotter), & Atropos (the unturnable, who cut the thread). Even the gods were subject to the Fates.
This created where heroism wasn’t defined by changing one’s fate. But by facing it with dignity. For example, Oedipus tries everything to avoid the prophecy that he’ll kill his dad & marry his mom. His very attempt to flee is what ultimately fulfills it.
The Stoics (like Seneca & Marcus Aurelius) practiced a form of “rational fatalism.” They compared humans to a dog tied to a moving cart. The dog can either trot happily with the cart (accepting fate) or be dragged kicking & screaming. The destination is the same. The only thing you control is your internal attitude.
The most famous challenge to fatalism is the Lazy Argument: If it’s fated that you’ll recover from an illness, you’ll recover whether you call a doctor or not. Philosophers like Chrysippus countered this by arguing that certain outcomes are “co-fated.”
It may be fated that you recover. But it’s also fated that you recover because you called a doctor. Your action is a link in the chain of fate, not an alternative to it.
In Islam, the concept of Qadar emphasizes a balance between divine sovereignty & human responsibility, folk traditions across the Middle East & South Asia have historically leaned toward a “written” destiny (Maktub – “it is written”). This perspective often provided a psychological cushion against the frequent tragedies of the medieval world, like a plagues or invasions.
American culture is infamously anti-fatalistic. The famous “American Dream” is built on the idea that you can pull yourself up by your own bootstraps & be the architect of your own destiny/fortune. However, fatalism does exist in American conscienceness in 2 specific ways:
- Literary Naturalism
- In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, American writers like Stephen Crane & Jack London moved away from Romanticism toward Naturalism. They portrayed humans as “small, soft things” at the mercy of indifferent forces (biology, heredity, & environment). In Crane’s The Open Boat, the universe is depicted as a giant machine that doesn’t care if you live or die. This is “Modern Fatalism.”
- “Appalachian Fatalism
- Often misunderstood as laziness, this fatalism was a cultural adaptation of the Appalachian region, dominated by dangerous coal mines & unpredictable poverty. If your life depends on a mine roof that could at any moment regardless of your skill, or a boom-or-bust economy you can’t control, a fatalistic worldview (“It’s in God’s hands”) becomes a survival mechanism to manage chronic stress.
In modern physics, the Block Universe theory (based on Einstein’s General Relativity) suggests that time is a dimension just like space. If the past, present, & future all exist simultaneously in a “block,” then the future is technically as fixed & unchangeable as the past. If using this view, our perception of “choosing” is just an illusion created by our movement through the time dimension. Essentially this is Scientific Fatalism.
The philosopher Karl Popper once joked that the fatalist is the person who looks both ways before crossing a 1-way street. Deep down, even those who claim the future is a fixed act, though their choices matter.
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📝 Plot:
Professional killers move through Europe under false identities, executing contracts with cold precision while remaining bound by a strict criminal code. When loyalties begin to crack and suspicion spreads within their circle, violence becomes inevitable. This bleak crime thriller explores isolation, paranoia, and moral emptiness, painting a fatalistic portrait of men and women trapped by their own ruthless profession.
🎬 La peau de torpedo (1970)
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#LaPeauDeTorpedo
#crime
#thriller
#FrenchCinema
#noir
#assassins
#fatalism
#classicFilm
🎬 Le deuxième souffle (2007)
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https://darkiworld15.com/titles/8254/le-deuxieme-souffle
#LeDeuxiemeSouffle
#crime
#thriller
#neoNoir
#FrenchCinema
#gangster
#honor
#fatalism
📝 Plot:
A troubled railway engineer struggles with violent impulses he cannot control, while becoming entangled in a web of passion, betrayal, and murder. Set against the relentless rhythm of trains and industrial France, Jean Renoir adapts Émile Zola’s novel into a bleak vision of human instinct. Desire, jealousy, and fate collide, revealing how reason collapses when primal forces take over.
#LaBeteHumaine #FilmNoir #Crime #Fatalism #FrenchCinema #JeanRenoir
🎬 La bête humaine [The Human Beast] (1938)
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🎬 La bandera [Escape From Yesterday] (1935)
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#filmNoir
#drama
#adventure
#FrenchCinema
#ForeignLegion
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📝 Plot:
As noon approaches, tensions rise around a crime driven by passion, betrayal, and moral compromise. Characters are caught in a tightening web of suspicion where past choices resurface and time becomes an inescapable pressure. Blending crime and psychological drama, the film builds a fatalistic atmosphere in which destiny, guilt, and human weakness collide with relentless precision.
🎬 Quand sonnera midi (1958)
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#QuandSonneraMidi
#Drama
#CrimeFilm
#FrenchCinema
#Suspense
#Fatalism
#1950sCinema
#ClassicFilm
📝 Plot:
Set in postwar Italy, this dark drama follows a troubled woman whose past and passions draw those around her into a spiral of desire, jealousy, and violence. As relationships unravel, the film explores guilt, social pressure, and the inescapable weight of personal choices. A tense, morally charged story where love and danger are inseparably linked.
📝 Plot:
A hunted American gunman flees through postwar France after a killing, dragging his lover into a relentless manhunt. As police pressure mounts and chance encounters close every escape route, the flight becomes a grim countdown shaped by betrayal, exhaustion, and fate. This stark noir strips survival to its core, where love offers brief refuge but destiny remains inescapable.
#GunmanInTheStreets
#FilmNoir
#Crime
#Manhunt
#Fatalism
#PostWarCinema
#FrenchNoir
🎬 Gunman in the Streets [Le Traqué] (1950)
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NONE
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#Crime
#Thriller
#Manhunt
#FrenchCinema
#PostWar
#Fatalism
📝 Plot:
A rough but devoted businessman becomes obsessively involved with a mysterious nightclub singer whose troubled past and shifting loyalties pull him into a world of crime and moral ambiguity. Blinded by passion, he risks everything to protect her, even as betrayal and suspicion close in. The story unfolds as a bleak noir tragedy, exploring destructive love, fate, and the impossibility of escape from one’s choices.
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