Pessimism and optimism imply nothing about action or inaction, active or passive. The entire article is based on a straw man of pessimism that is exactly like t

Pessimism and optimism imply nothing about action or inaction, active or passive. The entire article is based on a straw man of pessimism that is exactly like the one he's defending optimism from: > people mistake optimism for “blind optimism” — the blinkered faith that things will always get better. Problems will fix themselves. If we just hope things turn out well, they will. [...] If we sit back and do nothing, we will not make progress. That’s not the kind of optimism that I’m talking about > Pessimism blocks solutions. If we always believe that the worst will happen, then what’s the point in starting? If any action will fail, we should stick with the status quo. Follow the pessimists if you want the world to stagnate or regress. You've had enough of people equating passivity with optimism so you decide to equate it to pessimism instead. BIG THINK.