Fatalism

There is a kind of perverse fatalism in this comment.

Meanwhile, in the company of Jews who are a little or a lot like me, there tends to be a gluey fatalism.

For the truly dedicated believer, however, there are only two choices: fatalism or rebellion.

Inspired by the ongoing cold war and its attendant nuclear paranoia, its combination of anger and fatalism still sounds pertinent.

It’s a quality perfectly captured by MacKay’s endlessly watchable eyes, which manage simultaneously to project ravaged innocence and world-weary exhaustion – fatalism and hope.

Or is it that the cares of office during a pandemic have dragged him down so far that his natural ebullience and optimism have been replaced by fatalism and a taste for the hard smack of oppression?

Still, the longer the protests go on without substantial political change or economic succor, the more fatigue and fatalism have crept in.

Surveys and studies show that people often are demotivated by efforts to prepare for the Big One, overwhelmed by fatalism in the face of such an event.

Australia’s bowling in the last 40 minutes, at a time when other teams would have surrendered to fatalism, has been awesome.

Dr. Erica Dodds, 29, chief operating officer at the Foundation for Climate Restoration, describes the initial fatalism she encounters in the young people she connects with.

Mark Brown, 45, the owner of Arcadia, a deli in a leafy corner of south Belfast, expressed fatalism.

Øvredal’s film offers only one possible way to fight such fatalism: influence the storyteller to change their story, as Stella does by eventually confronting Sarah, offering to tell the vengeful ghost’s true tale if she calls off the monsters.

Perhaps optimism, overladen with the much thicker and more familiar scent that is fatalism?

The fatalism of some South African women was reflected in recent interviews conducted by Norwegian student activists working in Johannesburg.

Against fatalism Mozi disagrees with the fatalistic mindset of people, accusing the mindset of bringing about poverty and suffering.

Again, this cannot be taken to mean that belief in determinism is to blame; these are the results we would expect from increasing people's belief in fatalism.

As contentious as this is also whether the truth of determinism introduces any challenges to meaning and purposeful effort - or the value of decision making and seemingly important life choices - most notably in the form of nihilism or fatalism.

As discussed earlier in this article, compatibilistic free will is illustrated by statements like "my choices have causes, and an effect – so I affect my future", whereas fatalism is more like "my choices have causes, but no effect – I am powerless".

Fatalism is the idea that everything is fated to happen, so that humans have no control over their future.

Furthermore, the concept of psychohistory, which gives the events in the story a sense of rational fatalism, leaves little room for moralization.