Optimism

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Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive

Maddy Lauria grist.org

Keely Adler

💡 Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism

Kevin Kelly warpnews.org

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What Tech Futurists Get Wrong About Human Autonomy | NOEMA

Divya Siddarth noemamag.com

Charles Adjovu

So many people say "I don't want to have kids because I don't want them to experience all the issues in the world today". What are they smoking? We literally live in the best era we've ever seen in human civilization.

Chatting with @camwiese today about his New World's Fair (which hopes to paint an optimistic, definite vision of the future), I noticed how these projects so often turn to *retro*futurism in art direction. What would a now-rooted, forward-facing hopepunk aesthetic look like?

Andy Matuschak

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Tanuj

i think maybe a useful tool for working is; whenever i start believing things are impossible, i am simply tired and need rest. i can begin again when i have the energy to believe in possibilities. i am not a negative person, i am just exhausted.

alex

It took me a while, but I eventually figured out what he meant. Sometimes the task of rebuilding—of accepting what has been broken and making things anew—is so daunting that it can almost feel easier to believe it can’t be done.

But it can.

Alara