Definite optimism as human capital

It’s no wonder, then, that a nostalgic hopelessness, defeatist fatalism, or outright nihilism about the future has started to metastasize. On a deeper level, the absence of transcendental vision that characterizes our age has resulted in a general “future blindness,” in which the future has simply become the continuation of a never-ending present d

Even if you don’t regard material wealth as central to human well-being, economic growth brings many other values, including, for instance, much greater access to the arts and education. Economic growth also gives individuals greater autonomy and minimizes the chance that their destiny will be determined by the time and place in which they were bor

I’m convinced that we’re suffering from an ‘imaginary crisis’. By this, I don’t mean that the various crises around us aren’t real, but rather that there’s a deep malaise affecting our capacity for imagination, whether social or political.