Looking at the bottom line of this post I can say that one of the things are missing is who does the pessimism bias serve? It serves interests and those interests are interested in keeping a pessimistic view of the world going because they can make sales and increase their bottom line. They can sell commodities and make the public believe that they need to do things for themselves to make life better because things are bad. This noble myth keeps people in jobs they hate and keeps them docile. If the world was a bright and wonderful improving place then people would do radical things that would upset the social order and the accepted way of things. That is why radicals want radical change and why, packaged in the right way, they can become a representative of the whole. If you look at the wave of communism in the early 20th century, you had people getting behind the ideas of just a few radicals because of an overwhelming problem and a social order that was unwilling to change. That is what we face now. Facts have no place in this space because it is all about perception and perception is crafted. What you are describing is how people keep the status quo going.
Looking at the bottom line of this post I can say that one of the things are missing is who does the pessimism bias serve? It serves interests and those interests are interested in keeping a pessimistic view of the world going because they can make sales and increase their bottom line. They can sell commodities and make the public believe that they need to do things for themselves to make life better because things are bad. This noble myth keeps people in jobs they hate and keeps them docile. If the world was a bright and wonderful improving place then people would do radical things that would upset the social order and the accepted way of things. That is why radicals want radical change and why, packaged in the right way, they can become a representative of the whole. If you look at the wave of communism in the early 20th century, you had people getting behind the ideas of just a few radicals because of an overwhelming problem and a social order that was unwilling to change. That is what we face now. Facts have no place in this space because it is all about perception and perception is crafted. What you are describing is how people keep the status quo going.