Optimism
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Optimism
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Hans Rosling • 6 highlights
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If you find yourself in a culture of Tension, the best way to move that culture forward is to create a sense of clarity and opportunity. Show people what’s possible. Even better, show people what they could be capable of.
This is a time to inspire and allow people to see themselves in a new world. Give them something to dream about. Turn them into
... See more“And if there is a fundamental difference between the way people perceived the world around them in the past and the way they perceive it at present, then it is perhaps best identified as follows: in the past, activism was coupled with optimism, while today activism requires pessimism.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Metamodernism is thus also more optimistic than modernism as it strives to go beyond its shortcomings, and thus inherently more optimistic than postmodernism, which lacks faith in modernity and its metanarrative of progress.


