We Are Doomed Quotes

“The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias”
― John Derbyshire , We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; we want to get even with that s.o.b. who insulted us at the last tribal council. For most people, wanting to know the cold truth about the world is way, way down the list.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and 'secular-progressive values' have certainly done much damage, they are symptoms, not causes—fragments of junk sucked into a vacuum. The fundamental reason why so much of our culture is shit—either literally, like Signor Manzoni's masterwork, or figuratively—is exhaustion, cultural exhaustion.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“We are a rugged species, up for anything the universe can throw at us; and as the great gloominaries knew, we will be immeasurably better prepared for nasty surprises if we approach the universe realistically — pessimistically — than if we continue to peer out at our surroundings through a distorting, rose-colored prism of wish-fulfillment fantasy.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“The remarkable thing about the Diversity cult is that all the circumstances of the actual human world refute its tenets, wherever we look. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that there has never been an ideology so heartily and jealously embraced by all the main institutions of a society, that was at the same time so obviously at odds with the evidence of our senses. It is as if the entire Western world had committed itself to the belief that human beings can fly by flapping their arms.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism

“Once this was a nation of farmers, builders, inventors, creators, explorers, and thinkers. Now we are a nation of bubblehead academic poseurs, race-guilt hucksters, and keening middle-class "victims" of imaginary wrongs.”
― John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism