Optimism or Pessimism: should this be a dilemma?
Why are people in some of the richest countries in the world dissatisfied about their daily existences, while a large set of economic and social data show growing unprecedented material progresses? What are the sources of anxiety and pessimism that translated into populism and worsening mental health? Are we, despite the massive gains in material progress in recent decades, living in an age of insecurity? Things are bad, and it …