![]() ![]() Some of this contemptible claptrap takes the form of free-floating all-purpose fatalistic platitudes, while most of the rest is usually heard after someone dies, or following a greater or lesser misfortune of some other kind. Unfortunately, the emergence and evolution of the Web has rendered these excrescences of half-baked thinking immortal (or at least incapable of extinction), especially in the United States, where cultural backwardness and scientific and factual ignorance are widespread in the population (this site being one of the honourable exceptions). ![]() ![]() In fact, there is in perpetual circulation on the internet a bunch of trite and irritating bromides that bespeak a slavish and idiotic mindset. To my mind, it's of a piece with that other vacuous trope of wishful thinking, "Everything happens for a reason". ![]() To change the subject slightly, I'm with user76468 in deprecating the notion of karma as a sort of cosmic reward or punishment for past actions. There also exists the old proverb, "Lie down with the dogs and you will rise with fleas". One sometimes hears the impersonal saying, "Actions have consequences" - an accurate but rather unenlightening observation. ![]()
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