> Overly optimistic about the past gone by, overly pessimistic about the present and future. That seems to be the backdrop of Asimov's Foundation series, about

> Overly optimistic about the past gone by, overly pessimistic about the present and future. That seems to be the backdrop of Asimov's Foundation series, about the fall of the Galactic Empire... which was itself modeled after "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".