#Fatalism

Determinism is the doctrine that marches everything along a chain of causality, insisting that any notion of choice is but a fanciful illusion. It boldly dismisses free will as a luxury and refuses even to grant deliverance from the burden of existence. With glee it cuts away all randomness, neatly categorizing your every angst under the rubric of inevitability. It expels all chance, relegating life to a monotonous coloring book of causal relationships.

Fatalism is a philosophical thief that shelves the troublesome question of one’s own will and grandly declares everything to be predetermined. The more one pursues freedom, the more one is confronted with the futility of such a claim. It spares us the labor of taking responsibility for our actions while providing the guilty pleasure of blaming someone else, yet imposes the despair of knowing nothing can ever be changed. Ultimately, when one learns that even the effort to defy fate was itself part of the grand prearranged script, one is wrapped in exquisite irony.