the pessimism article

I read the article about pessimism and one thing I noticed is that they only listed the positives or the good things, but they didn’t list the bad things that come from those “good things”; such as the graph that showed that the child mortality rate has gone down, the part they didn’t mention is that now earth is overpopulated and it’s not even a very productive generation especially in the US, I fear that in the future of humanity is in danger because more babies are living, not to sound cold or anything but that's just how it is, we need to find some way to deal with overpopulation. Another thing I saw in the article was that they sort of knocked down pessimist even though you are born more positive or more negative, yes some terrible things can happen in your childhood but that doesn’t cause pessimism it’s just who you are as a person they were also saying that pessimism in our country was caused by the news that's also incorrect, the news drives people apart more than it does anything else it's not spawning negative people, those negative people were always there because they were born that way. Also only knowing the positives leads to ignorance and can leave someone in a little shelter bubble away from things that need to be fixed. Yes, there are definitely good things but there are so many bad things, its better to have a balance of knowledge but being a cynic is definitely not a bad thing and I feel as if this article was putting across that everything is unicorns and rainbows now which its not. Positive things can’t come from positive things, then they’re just normal, but things are more positive when the come from negatives (if that makes any sense).

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