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Posts Tagged ‘optimism’
The Evidence Just Keeps Accumulating
Posted in Books, tagged optimism, pronoia on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Impossible Will Take a Little While
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged howard zinn, optimism on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“The Optimism of Uncertainty” by Howard Zinn We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world . . . An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be [...]
Our Pronoiac Heroes, Part 1
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Colin Wilson, philosopher of optimism Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow — because “oh well, it’s just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person” — what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds [...]
Radical Optimism Is the Most Rebellious Stance You Can Take
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“We are becoming healthier, cleaner, smarter, kinder, happier, and more peaceful.” Matt Ridley gave a talk at the Long Now Foundation’s Seminar of Long Term Thinking called “Deep Optimism”. Ridley is the author of a recent book, The Rational Optimist, where he makes the case that human culture was created not by language (conventional wisdom) [...]
Breaking the Taboo Against Optimism
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reasons to be cheerful: Leaders in the business of books reveal what they are optimistic about Every new year, John Brockman of the online intellectual powerhouse Edge (www.edge.org) asks its virtual community of scientists and social thinkers one question. In 2007, it was this: “What are you optimistic about?” To strike a less than despondent [...]
What if the Doomsday Propaganda Is Even Just Half-Wrong?
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism, properity on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first 10 years of the 21st century were humanity’s finest — even for the world’s bottom billion. Best. Decade. Ever.
I Dare You to Flirt With the Taboo of Cagey Optimism
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged africa, optimism on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
And now, the good news about Africa Africa may often be seen as a lost continent, but a new study reveals a completely different image. Africans are becoming increasingly wealthy—at a faster pace than most assume. The growth spurt started in 1995 and is increasing at a constant rate. “Africa is reducing poverty, and doing [...]
Doomsday Predictions Sell Better Than Optimism? You’re Kidding Me!
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Economic Optimism? Yes, I’ll Take That Bet You can always make news with doomsday predictions, but you can usually make money betting against them. … Natural gas . . . is selling for less than half of what it was five years ago. There’s so much available that the Energy Department is predicting low prices [...]
What’s More Taboo Than Optimism?
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism, politics on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things are better than they seem. Honest. The idea that America’s best days are behind it is no longer just a rhetorical device: It’s conventional wisdom…But is it true? America is characterologically, almost definitionally, optimistic. The country, after all, was founded on the idea that anyone could come here and make a better life for [...]
Try Changing the Images You Carry Around in Your Mind
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged future, history, optimism on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No Doomsday Dr. Ridley’s prediction for the rest of the century: Prosperity spreads, technology progresses, poverty declines, disease retreats, fecundity falls, happiness increases, violence atrophies, freedom grows, knowledge flourishes, the environment improves and wilderness expands.
Pronoia Lifetime Achievement Awards
Posted in Web Sites, tagged hope, magazines, optimism on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These two magazines continue to be wellsprings of crafty optimism and discerning hope and wild discipline: Ode magazine Yes magazine
Optimism Is for Radical Dissidents
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged optimism on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Five Reasons for Optimism
Intelligent Optimism Is Reaching Pandemic Proportions
Posted in Web Sites, tagged leaders, optimism on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nominate your favorite intelligent optimist — and see others’ nominations
Controversial, Cutting-Edge Optimism
Posted in Web Sites, tagged optimism, transhumanism on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beyond the humanists are the transhumanists. Humanity will be radically changed by technology in the future. We foresee the feasibility of redesigning the human condition, including such parameters as the inevitability of aging, limitations on human and artificial intellects, unchosen psychology, suffering, and our confinement to the planet earth.
I Dare You to Be Optimistic
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged current events, news, optimism on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Things are still getting better
Balancing out the Pop-Nihilists of the Mainstream Media
Posted in Web Sites, tagged news, optimism on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing but good news here
World Question Center
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged optimism, questions on January 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“What are you optimistic about?” — asked of 160 leading thinkers Article introduction
