I don't think that resignation is a necessary consequence. People can just as easily decide to change the way they view things to be naturally going.
The significance of the mentality is that it releases you from negative reactions that would cloud a person from being able to react to the situation with a clear and level head. In other words, the situation isn't good or bad, it's just one that is and must now be acted upon through active or passive decision.
Eh, the more I think about it, the more I think this is irrelevant to what Gulenko was saying.