Europeans are all so defeatist. It’s sad.
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I relate to this, as historically I am the same way.
Focusing less on Macro stuff (generally things I can't control) has been huge in helping feel positive.
Improve yourself. Be a good friend, father, uncle, whatever. Make people laugh etc. At least in this context a person is having positive impact on everything and everyone around them.
And never let anyone take your ability to be this away from you, even if somehow the worst does come to pass.
To me, this reads as "delude yourself into thinking everything is fine", resulting in not seeing the problems (and by definition not being able to have any impact on them whatsoever, even if you could have had) and being hit much harder when they inevitably come. In a way similar, although of course nowhere near as globally destructive, to what Keynesians do with fiat money economy.
Then you're reading it wrong.
I hadn't made the connection to Europe/US before, it could be a cultural difference. I can't speak for all Europeans, but to me personally, the opposite mentality seems, for lack of a better term, weird. Like celebrating having a 99% risk of death* from a disease that you just found out you have, because it's not 100%.
*Exaggerated numbers for illustration - not related to original question.
I don’t understand what you’re saying.
That it seems to me like Americans ((I assume you're US, otherwise insert the country/continent you're thinking of) generalizing back at you, there are probably plenty of exceptions both ways) are refusing to see that the reality in aggregate is quickly getting worse, because certain aspects of it is getting better.
It seems you have no distinction between hope and faith for the future, you can't work for trying to improve the future (for example with Bitcoin) unless you actually believe there is a high probability of it going well. (In trading, this is of course literally true, but that's not what I'm talking about)