pessimists definitions

REVOLUTIONARY

An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.  

ROCK 'N' ROLL  

A raucous musical rendering of adolescent glandular activity, peddled to receptive teens since the 1950s as a cheap and relatively bloodless means of overthrowing parental authority, along with most of the accumulated values of western civilization.

SALARY  

A market value assigned to professionals as a function of their scarcity, their usefulness to employers and their ability to feign enthusiasm for their work. 

CULT FILM 

A movie seen about fifty times by about that many people. 

DENIAL 

How an optimist keeps from  becoming a pessimist. 

DNA 

A complex organic molecule characterized as the building block of life and appropriately shaped like a spiral staircase to nowhere