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“Qué será, será. Whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours to see. Qué será, será.” This is the refrain from a Doris Day song on the lips of many people in the middle of the ‘50s. The song was about a mother teaching her little daughter not to bother too much about what will be or not; the best thing to do for the future, she was told, was to rely on amor fati. This lesson very clearly communicated an educational message of undisputed optimism, and also a kind of naive and irresponsible happy-go-lucky attitude.
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Bjurvill, C. (1998). Analyzing Images of the Future. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Creative Virtualities in Human Self-Interpretation-in-Culture. Analecta Husserliana, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4890-0_13
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