Optimism and Pessimism

Some how, I do not think people really get the meaning of pessimism... There is nothing optimistic or pessamistic in realistic...

Fido;
Optimism is the avoidance of pessimism. Pessimism is the avoidance of optimism. Both are the avoidance of be-ing. LOL
Dasein

I think both have their own place. I am pessimistic about war being necessary for the betterment of society. I am pessimistic about the actions of most politicians doing what is in the best interest of the people. I am pessimistic that religion has always remained pure free from corruption. I am pessimistic that the laws of the nation make the nation peaceful or prosperous. I am pessimistic about the education of the US being the best it can possibly be. (for a nation that praises actors/actresses and athletes with huge sums of money while our teachers have incredibly modest salaries.) I am pessimistic about humanity wanting to improve itself.

Why be so pessimistic? Because it is has been the reality so far. The cup isn't half full nor is it half empty. It is both, better to be realistic.

I'm optimistic about the pessimistic views i have on subjective subjects i find objective but then i am talking hollocks.

The two views can change when a slight breeze occurs ,if your optimistic in nature, but will never change even if a hurricane blows and your pessimistic. Ide much rather be optimistic about human nature.

You should not be optimistic about human nature...It is too obvious that our nature is destroying all others...Can it not be more obvious that the nature we need to fear is our own... Storms and earth quakes come and go, but we never change, and it is, I presume, because we cannot...All the human progress we have has left us much as we have always been, devious little monkey killers... All human progress is the result of changes in forms...When we are good, and at our best it is because our forms are helping to correct our defects, and encouraging our happiness... When we are rotten it is because our forms have been mastered and perverted to serve only a few, and people are miserable, and when miserable, people attack their environment and other nations...Forms are cause, and cure, but we know human beings can be both good and vicious, so all people, If they would curb their excesses- should study forms; not as ideologues, but as active dynamic people aware that forms are like the water in which we swim, surrounding and supporting us...Forms are durable because we desire stability... When we desire change our forms should be as easy to change as a primitive form of dwelling... Knowledge of forms is essential so that when necessary, when forms no longer serve people, that they know how to pull out the key pieces and let it fall..We all have our forms, and to some the form is all...Tell the cop on the beat that his form and uniform mean nothing and he will object, perhaps with violence... To those with a place in the form, no amount of education will make them revolt...If it works for them it does not matter how many perople it uses and ruins...

So a breeze will not make you optimistic? The individual can encourage me but for the worldly view it is very depressing, i agree.