Dr Abdullah bin Musa Al Tayer
I love optimists and I try to be one of them. Is it that simple? President Barack Obama asked a hypothetical philosophical question in a speech in 2016 AD: If given the right to choose, what time would you choose to be born? Where would you like to be born? Is it in the ancient or modern stone age? Ancient Greece or Rome? In the middle ages or in the fifties? in Elizabethan England? Or in Colonial America? And he replied, “I will choose today.” He justified this by saying: “We are fortunate to live in the most peaceful, prosperous and advanced age in human history,” adding, “Decades have passed since the last war.” More people live in a democracy, and we are richer. healthier and better educated, with a global economy that has lifted more than a billion people out of extreme poverty.
And regardless of whether it is reality or whether the man is embellishing himself or not, his words support it. “Why the darkness that politicians and intellectuals have put on us?” One of the great American authors answers this by saying: “The news media is more likely to report bad news than good news because it is tasked to do so, and according to psychologist Roy F. Baumeister “Bad feelings, bad parents, and reactions to bad people are stronger than good ones, and negative information is processed more intensively than positive information.” Furthermore, bad impressions and stereotypes form faster and are more resistant to criticism than good ideas. On the proposed options “God does not change us.”
Some envision an ideal society in which most people hold optimistic views of themselves, their fellow citizens, and the prospects for their collective future. However, in fact, there are those who believe that the exact opposite is true, and that “deep pessimism is a key component of maintaining a good society.” Proponents of this school of thought justify their argument by saying that “modernism does not throw chicks.” The essence of pessimism lies in the idea that “every person, no matter how normal they appear, actually suffers from serious defects. And that we humans are “crazy apes with a few extra neurons.”
In a pessimistic society, politicians who are “boring and fixed in their chairs rule,” and none of the voters “believe the utopian promises of riotous politicians,” especially when they are launched from the electoral platform. Is. People are “too pessimistic to count on easy and quick solutions to any of the fundamental problems the country is facing.” So former Brazilian President Bolsonaro asked with regret: Where did I go wrong to lose the election? Maybe he wasn’t wrong, but it was the pessimistic nature of voters, who didn’t trust unfamiliar promises, that toppled him. Gave where he was expected to pave his way to the presidency for a second term with those populist promises.
Pessimistic societies “invest heavily in strong, slow-moving and independent institutions that prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a single individual.” Furthermore, these institutions are seen as “untouched by the vagaries of public opinion” and, pessimistically, as “susceptible to hysteria and over-reaction” and therefore viewed by most people as a threat to established institutions and traditions. get separated from.
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आशावादी जीवन को गुलाबी रंग में नहीं रंग सकते हैं और वर्गों को खुशियों के प्रजनन के आधार में नहीं बदल सकते हैं, और न ही निराशावादी अपने समय से पहले समाजों पर बुरे भाग्य का कहर ढा सकते हैं। निराशावाद और आशावाद दो सापेक्ष अवस्थाएँ हैं जो किसी भी स्वस्थ समाज में आवश्यक हैं।