I have lived with it throughout my life. Now you know why it s impossible for me to ever become a pessimist. And more importantly, in years to come. Thumbs down on optimism. Optimism is out.
Pessimism is in.
What the article really said is that the more profound scholarly books to come out of the throbbing heartbeat of academia in the Western world are pessimistic. Optimism is out. We re in postmodernism. And postmodernism, the article says, is modernism with the optimism taken out. Because Western civilization is rooted in the Judiac-Christian faith.