Optimism and Pessimism in the World

i try not to think in terms of optimism and pessimism because it then you know colors your your lenses and makes it more difficult to just see what what is happening. i also think as a historian that history is not a deterministic and technology is not a laundry list of things we can do with it. You could use the same technology for very good purposes or for very bad purposes if you look at the 20th century people could create communist dictatorships or fascist regimes or liberal democracies but electricity didn't tell people what to do with it, the same with biotechnology and artificial intelligence we still have options. I'm very much concerned about what we are doing to other animals and especially