> This feels like a "terrorist/freedom-fighter" thing Exactly. The author is stapling all the good qualities onto optimism and all the bad ones onto pessimism

> This feels like a "terrorist/freedom-fighter" thing Exactly. The author is stapling all the good qualities onto optimism and all the bad ones onto pessimism so that he can declare one good and the other bad. I'm optimistic we can have a more meaningful conversation about optimism and pessimism if we forget this article.