Post by t-bob on Feb 22, 2019 11:03:08 GMT -5
futilitarians
noun
1. a person who believes that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified.
adjective
1. believing that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified.
Quotes
A lot of artists in America tend to be self-deprecating futilitarians, because we’ve grown up in a culture in which art doesn’t matter except, occasionally, as a high-end investment. -- Tim Kreider, "When Art Is Dangerous (or Not)," New York Times, January 10, 2015 For it is significant that much of the work of Bierce seems to be that of what he would have called a futilitarian, that he seldom seems able to find a suitable field for his satire, a foeman worthy of such perfect steel as he brings ot he encounter ... -- Bertha Clark Pope, "Introduction" to The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, 1922
Origin
Futilitarian is a humorous blend of futile and utilitarian. The word was coined in scorn for the utilitarian philosophy for the jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-73). Futilitarian entered English in the 19th century
noun
1. a person who believes that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified.
adjective
1. believing that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified.
Quotes
A lot of artists in America tend to be self-deprecating futilitarians, because we’ve grown up in a culture in which art doesn’t matter except, occasionally, as a high-end investment. -- Tim Kreider, "When Art Is Dangerous (or Not)," New York Times, January 10, 2015 For it is significant that much of the work of Bierce seems to be that of what he would have called a futilitarian, that he seldom seems able to find a suitable field for his satire, a foeman worthy of such perfect steel as he brings ot he encounter ... -- Bertha Clark Pope, "Introduction" to The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, 1922
Origin
Futilitarian is a humorous blend of futile and utilitarian. The word was coined in scorn for the utilitarian philosophy for the jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and the philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-73). Futilitarian entered English in the 19th century
