How old do we think the writer is?
"When Did Optimism Become Uncool?
We are inclined to depose that it has always been uncool.
Well, I discover that the line 'Call no man happy until he is dead', is from Aeschylus, and we very much doubt that he was the first to realise that you sound cooler and deeper if you voice existential despair and a general sense that the glass is falling hour by hour, and that bopping around going 'Happy days are here again' or 'Every day in every way things are getting better' gets you dismissed as naive and shallow.
Anyway, well before the current generation.
Okay, thinking about there have been times and places when, at least for a short time, optimism was IN.
But I suspect that it is one of the Canons of Cool to look on the dark side. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2444358.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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