Once in a while Normal Pessimists pipe up to tell everyone how much they suck.
It can be optimistic to say people are fucking up if you view that as an opportunity to do better. Optimism here isn’t exactly the right word. For example lots of articles that are very upset about Trump are Normal Optimist.
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Crooked Timber isn’t always sad but it is...sort of engaged in a process of eternal criticism, maybe that’s it? It doesn’t conceive of a state beyond critique as a good thing? Weird Pessimists think criticism *is a form of appreciation*.
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The “showing up at school dressed in black” vs “showing up dressed in a clown suit” thing is relevant here. Weird Pessimists are the former, Weird Optimists are the latter.
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