Society has lost collective faith in imagining a better future; fundamentally losing optimism is a core societal problem; bad news sells and alarm generates eyeballs, so forces of kindness, calm, perspective, and utopianism are in retreat.
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Alain de BottonEvidence Quote
“we have fundamentally lost the faith. We've lost the ability to collectively imagine a better future... the forces of kindness, the forces of calm, the forces of perspective are now more endangered than ever”
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:13:11 PM
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