A philosophical position holding that human effort, endeavor, and meaning are fundamentally futile.
From futilitarian plus the suffix '-ism,' creating a full philosophical ideology parallel to utilitarianism.
Futilitarianism is a shadow philosophy—it appears in existential literature and absurdist works but never formalized as seriously as utilitarianism, even though pessimism has deep roots in human thought from Schopenhauer to Cioran.
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