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    Are things Getting Better?

    A friend of mine had a hard time believing the ‘good news’ part of gwynne dyers year ender that I posted on a few days ago. I was just reading worldchanging and found that they are not alone. This post goes into some of the pyschology and philosphy of optimism versus negativity and is quite an interesting read.

    WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Tracking Global Violence: Are things Getting Better?

    as responsible change-makers in the 21st century, I think we need to forget this simple negative-positive, optimism-pessimism divide. We to recapture some of the pre-modern “mysterious duality” that drove the insight of our most cherished artists. We need to borrow that Chinese definition of optimism, a concept that lets us live in the shadow of the lightness and darkness of our situation, the ambiguity within us and around us, even though this is discomforting

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    Posted: January 8th, 2006 under Big Questions.
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