But are we fated to stay within our raisin'? Don Williams sang that great Bob McDill tune that somehow didn't make Ken Burns's final cut, that says "I guess we're all gonna be what we're gonna be." Is that true? Is it fatalistic? Can you really love it?
We were to have had a report in Happiness today on Nietzsche, whose notion of a life-affirming philosophy of life included a strong dose of fatalism. But fate intervened, calling one of our senior reporters away to deal with a family emergency. So as fate will have it, Nietzsche will wait... (continues)
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