A lot of our pessimistic world views come from a straight lined, linear extrapolation of negative trends. And positive trends mostly come through creativity and knowledge creation. If you could predict it, you would have invented it already. Good explanation is doc's improvement upon the scientific method. At the same time, it's beyond science. It's not just true in science, but in all of life. We navigate our way throughli awe do it successfully by creating good explanations.