Maybe you're not quite the pessimist that you imagine. Maybe you simply recognise that optimism is possible but not always easy?

Spoken as a true optimist.

But I think these things are something we are born with, and which we don't lose or change.

We have never lost our freedom, but our awareness... While in a sense I agree in another sense I don't. Talking of awareness reminds me of "unawareness", and unawareness must mean unfreedom. We are always unaware of lots of things, and how do we go about becoming aware of what we are unaw...

Freedom is how we decide to use .....24 hours a day .... more opportunities And that is the problem. Vi have the same attentions span but many more things are competing for it. And business has learned to use extraordinarily good stimulants to penetrate our mental fog. I actually don't see how we c...

This is not my world, every new day is a gift.

Yes!

But when we risk losing something, it gains in value.

Scarcity trumps abundance every time.

being a traditionalist play albums in full. I am not one for play lists.

Again, scarcity trumps abundance.

What we have lost is our youth and the uncorrupted appetite the young have. This loss is irreplaceable and in a sense makes us redundant. And what is left is a constant background sense of mourning, regret and despair, which can be temporarily postponed by going down the pub, putting on a record or ...

I'm one of those unstable, arty types

Nice!

The world has become far too complex and our present and comfortable standard of living is primarily based on global institutionalization (just think of shipping a lowly pencil from China) - which leaves no place for experimentation in voluntary cooperation (apart from small local outliers). We woul...

Thinking about this a little bit more, I think we can divide the world up into two different types. There are those who thrive when there are rules and there are those who thrive, when there are no rules. Each type is motivated by anxiety. In other words rulelessness gives anxiety to Type 1, whilst ...

Anarchy is selfish and idiotic This is another of your poetic sentences - it just seems to hang there and reverberate.... I actually think that we probably have the best of all possible systems right now - messy and ridiculous though it also is, and how can we assure that large numbers of people wo...

The alternative is anarchy....

Agreed!

But there would still be need of One Rule: Do not behave in any way, so we need to make up another rule.

Moderation by self-responsibility tacitly supported by collective agreement.