Pessimism

thumb|220px|An optimist and a pessimist, Vladimir Makovsky, 1893

Defeatism is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations. It can be linked to pessimism in psychology, and may sometimes be used synonymously with fatalism or determinism.

view that the bad in life and existence outweighs the good

Doomer is a 21st century neologism for an online subculture of individuals who share extremely pessimistic, nihilist or fatalistic views about global problems such as overpopulation, peak oil, climate change, ecological overshoot, pollution, nuclear weapons, democratic backsliding, economic collapse, and runaway artificial intelligence. Some doomers believe these problems may lead to societal collapse, or even worse, human extinction. The terms doomer and doomerism arose primarily on social media and later experienced a semantic change, becoming Internet slang for pessimism while overlapping w

Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline. Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.

cognitive strategy

conviction that culture is in decline