Realism

‘Realism’ is a word that is often used to refer to the stance or idea of being realistic about something, the term may be seen as a reference to an appeal to an idea of the real. It's often contrasted to optimism and pessimism, altho often in arbitrary ways. The conception of these words has been a matter of date since their coinage. Some would not see any contradiction in being realistic or realist and being pessimistic or optimistic, others would see them as mutually exclusive. We will try to give our best definitions. A person certainly can be realistic about achieving something, yet still be optimistic.
when Hilde van Gelder and Jan Baetens open their 2006 anthology of texts devoted to CriticalRealism in Contemporary Art with the words “20th-Century art [...] is at odds with realism, at least with the term,” it is this final phrase that seems key.
-- Krzysztof PijarskiThe problem is that everyone thinks they're a realist.No "realist" movement is ever effective in XXI century because it just breaks down into a thousands of reality forks that most people wont care to maintain.We gotta have environmental pessimism horrorism because otherwise people are gonna be swayed by corporate anti-green horrorism and denialism (if you regulate oil megacorps youll literally slippery slope into gulag/its all fake news despite overwhelming data)
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Mental attitude; Optimism; Pessimism;