The dangerous game of prediction separates the optimists from the pessimists. |
I hope the pessimists, cynics and scoffers will not have the last word on this. |
Optimists may say that the glass is half-full, pessimists that the glass is half-empty. |
They were pessimists, who refused to see history in terms of progress, and instead saw it as a desperate struggle against degeneration. |
What you are going to do is polarise the debate, declare yourself an optimist and make the pessimists look like dills. |
This ideologically diverse group is made up of cultural pessimists, environmentalists, traditionalists, egalitarians, and technophobes. |