As in the best milleniaristic traditions, defeatism seems to be for some a dark evil that infects all the structures and superstructures of complex configured systems, like our modern society. Is there something that should make it wiser in spite of a fat and juicy optimism, so dear to some clockwised and old fascioned [1] politic?
Now it’s clear that neither side can be neither fully wrong, nor fully right, but there must be an indisputable way to determine if the fucking glass is empty or is filling up. It is important to find the method, before you decide how to act.
It seems to be the hot water discovery after it was invented solar thermal and solar photovoltaics, as if the arduous climb to the mountain of knowledge could suddenly revert to the slopes of obscurantism and superstition, to tumble into a den of lions or into the moist, blackened dungeons of the witch hunt.
That’s why I like defeatists. They are motivated by fear that those times could come back, because they have the perception that they existed, while who flaunts optimism and would impose it at all costs, make me distrustful. Because I suspect that they have not learned anything from history and the confirmation comes through numerous reproaches from an optimist person to a pessimist one, and rarely on the contrary.
Gramsci, an italian politician, said: “The pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will.”
This is epistemological guarantism, because nature is fundamentally evil and life a magic and highly unstable equilibrium. It is the transience of life to force us to keep our feet on the ground, while the hope is that makes us fly.
Pessimism of the will and the optimism of the reason, however, lead to fascism, as an example of precognitive blindness. Because a pessimist will is a desire that tends to the death and an optimist reason is a reason that thinks enough of itself, a disease that leads to solipsism.
However, the system will surely implode. You just need to determine how, where and when. And how to contribute. And if we are ready to assist the event.
[1] it’s a joke of words between “old fashioned” and “fascism”.
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