Historical fatalism played a role like predestination did for modernity

Evidence

With regard to the historical role played by the fatalistic conception of the philosophy of praxis one might perhaps prepare its funeral oration, emphasising its usefulness for a certain period of history, but precisely for this reason underlining the need to bury it with all due honours. Its role could really be compared with that of the theory of predestination and grace for the beginnings of the modern world, a theory which found its culmination in classical German philosophy and in its conception of freedom as the consciousness of necessity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1231

Categorization

• XREF: Fatalism as functional placeholder in popular consciousness parallels how backward-looking ideologies scaffold transitions into new worldviews; connects to Gramsci’s common-sense/hegemony vocabulary for the Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Modern life became an open-ended discovery rather than a preordained enactment — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 104