I remember Neal Stephenson asking for the same thing at Town Hall in Seattle a number of years ago. The lament was that cynicism drives cynicism and we need to

I remember Neal Stephenson asking for the same thing at Town Hall in Seattle a number of years ago. The lament was that cynicism drives cynicism and we need to give hope to people solving problems. I could only get 50 pages into Handmaid's Tale for the same reason. My corpus-cynacismus is already too active.