The headline du jour. I used to always be annoyed in countries prone to this sort of thinking like Serbia and Russia because I saw it as an excuse by people not to take responsibility for their own situation, to blame everything on forces larger than themselves. That this sort of fatalism is emerging here is not a good sign.

Update: Along those lines, James Wolcott has found religion.

Posted by Laura at November 9, 2004 05:46 PM