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Indeed, some residents remain cautious about the University’s course of action in Allston. Houghton said that he was “very pessimistic?? about Allston’s future and that he would wait to see if the faculty Work Team could deliver results before casting further judgment. He also said that he was surprised at other residents’ hopeful attitude...
...talk touched upon the degeneration of Chinese morals, offering anecdotes that he said showed the dissolution of traditional marital and family values. “Maybe some people think I’m too pessimistic. But I don’t think I’m pessimistic??just realistic,” Szeto said. “If China doesn’t improve, doesn’t adopt democracy, Hong Kong will not improve, will not have democracy.” “I think that the disruption showed there’s such a difference...
...means to provide metaphysical answers to humanity’s deepest questions, but the values it espouses leave open the possibility that one day, these answers may be attainable. Overbye and others are right to praise science, but they do so for the wrong reasons. It is unduly pessimistic??as well as unsound methodologically—to assume that science can or should be separated from the religious, the metaphysical, or the ethical. After all, no good scientist should reject a hypothesis before it is tested...
...most people are deeply pessimistic??even in the midst of the ’90s economic boom, two-thirds of Americans thought that “the lot of the average person is getting worse.” On the left, Utne-reading Luddites condemn materialism and consumerism, longing for a squalid, pre-industrial past. On the right, conservative nativists fear immigration and social change—god forbid we lose the WASP culture that made this country great. And elites across the spectrum bemoan the base popularization of high culture...
Bogart sees La Dispute as essentially pessimistic??a portrait of a world in which free will is mostly an illusion, where people are merely animals “hardwired for mating...
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