[lit-ideas] Re: Mike and Schopenhauer
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:49:47 +0900
On 5/23/06, Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Optimism is a very very local
condition. Born of denial I think.
Not always born of denial, I think. As Ruth and I walk past our
guerilla garden this morning, we see all sorts of things to cheer us
up, the rose in full bloom, the blue sage surging, the flourishing
plumbago we transplanted this weekend. I remark once again online to
someone depressed with the state of American politics that I graduated
from a legally segregated high school, an institution now fully
integrated, and my mother who went to nursing school never had the
opportunity to do what my daughter has done, become a Navy pilot.
Arriving at my office I open an envelope that tells me that the
offshore hedge fund I just cashed in tripled in value in the last
decade.
I am not Candide. I don't believe that this is the best of all
possible worlds. How could it be with all the ghastly things that go
on. Still, there are bits of progress to be noted, joys to be tasted
here and there. I smile and look forward to another day.
--
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
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