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The below post argues that a philosophy of pessimism allows one to live in the moment without expectation for what the future will bring, unlike philosophical optimism ("whig history") which demands one to believe in history-as-progress, which doesn't happen and hence one is continuously disappointed.
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/philosophical-pessimism-a-denial
There are basically two responses to philosophical pessimism, one embodied by Schopenhauer (ascetic withdrawal) and the other by Nietzsche (embracing Heraclitian continual change), but philosophical pessimism has much in common with both Orthodox Christianity and with Buddhism.
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/philosophical-pessimism-a-denial
There are basically two responses to philosophical pessimism, one embodied by Schopenhauer (ascetic withdrawal) and the other by Nietzsche (embracing Heraclitian continual change), but philosophical pessimism has much in common with both Orthodox Christianity and with Buddhism.