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n.- A philosophy of pessimism.

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  • The miserabilism is not a conclusion but a premise: What is, is.
  • It is instead simply the shallow self-sustaining logic of a depressive and defeatist miserabilism.
  • Because by 'the rest of us' you mean 'Guardian readers and the rest of this country's socially, intellectually and morally diseased holders of diplomas in advanced...
  • Another example of wallowing in lower class miserabilism without the tact, beauty and poignancy of this years Samson and Delilah or the horror and ferocity of Rowan...
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