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that must be it; from March 4, 2004:
the worthless word for the day is: resistentialism
Paul Jennings's mock philosophy which maintains that
inanimate objects are hostile to humans. [OED2]
"Resistentialism is a philosophy of tragic grandeur...
Resistentialism derives its name from its central thesis that
Things resist men... Resistentialism is the
philosophy of what Things think about us."
- P. Jennings, The Spectator, 23 Apr. 1948
"'Things are against us.' This is the nearest English trans-
lation I can find for the basic concept of Resistentialism."
- P. Jennings, Oddly Enough (1950)
"I must object to Oxford's dubbing resistentialism a "mock
philosophy." There is nothing mock or sham about it, as
anyone who has ever had to call a plumber on a Sunday
morning to unclog a refractory toilet will attest."
- Charles Elster (who devotes most of two pages in
his "There's a word for it!" to this word)
-joe (paranoia runs deep) friday
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