@cgruenloh Exactly… this focus on being ”optimistic”, as if it’s a religion. I compare it to being asked to talk about guns, with the instruction ”Just be optimistic and don’t talk about all the bad they can be used for. We already have laws against killing people so there’s no need to spend time on that. Talk about the great, transformative things they can be used for. Stay positive! It’s not like we can stop the future. Nobody likes a pessimist.”
And in my head I’m always ”I’m not a pessimist. I’m an optimist who believes we can do much better. Pessimism to me is resigning to an imagined inevitability.”