yes, I believe that optimism is a part of building, and building and organization is what life is about. Life has improved these past hundred years, so has our social and economic organization. Also being optimistic you get these chemicals released in your brain which make you feel good. So I like being optimistic rather than negative. for me it is a choice. I can choose.
Do you think a society which make decisions based on scientific evidence would outgrow representative and direct democracies of today?