Hope and optimism are not the same thing. They are different states of mind. I am a hopeful person. I am not an optimist.
Related reading:
- Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven
- Joshua Foa Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, and Spirit
- Robert J. Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
- The Dark Mountain Manifesto