These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.
There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Optimism is an expectation that good things are going to be plentiful. The wealthy generally have the sense that life will bring good rather than bad outcomes. That doesn't mean they believe that good things will be omnipresent, but that they will outnumber the not-so-good.
No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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