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Extra-Existentialism
The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think
- Here we see the shift from cruel optimism to stupid pessimism, or call it fashionable pessimism, or simply cynicism. It’s very easy to object to the utopian turn by invoking some poorly-defined but seemingly omnipresent reality principle. Well-off people do this all the time.
from Dystopias Now | Commune by Kim Stanley Robinson
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