Now, that the crypto prices has tanked again pessimism and cynicism are back as the mainstream narrative. Honestly, that's alright it's always good for an industry to be critiqued and questioned, otherwise we build in a vacuum that never gets tested by society. We truly are in a battlefield of ideas, every concept we all grapple with or take for granted other than the laws of physics are socially contested ideas that are agreed upon to varying degrees by people around the world.
There will always be people who will point out the flaws in a movement of any kind. I am not an exception of this rule, we are all pessimistic and optimistic about different trends in society. We are also pessimistic and optimistic at different rates on a general sense, there are people who believe the world has been trending downwards on all fronts for as long as they can remember, but there are others who see the world slowly, but surely improving.
I am of the latter.
Definitely not through some intensive studying of every demographic, economic, psychosocial metric in the world, but simply through sheer faith. Optimism gives you strength.
Optimism is a belief that most people in the world wake up every single day hoping to make the world a little better than yesterday and that given enough time, good will prevail. And it just so happens that the world is the collective result of every human action plus natural events.
If it's easier for us to change ourselves than it is to change others, then it is clear that we must all have faith in optimism... because optimism is what begets positive outcomes in world. The belief in the good and better, means more action towards the good and better, resulting in the good and better.
Optimism is hard because it's easier to be cynical and pessimistic, therefore giving up on all efforts and resting on our laurels on the status quo until the heat death of the universe. But, just because something is hard... doesn't mean it's not worth doing.