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It [pessimism] is a freedom to dissent in a society where every kind of optimism (even the supposedly radical, such as communism) is a kind of assent to what you have been taught.  It is a freedom to cut yourself loose from a project that everyone insists you participate in. ~Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, […]

It [pessimism] is a freedom to dissent in a society where every kind of optimism (even the supposedly radical, such as communism) is a kind of assent to what you have been taught.  It is a freedom to cut yourself loose from a project that everyone insists you participate in. ~Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit

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