The Seven Laws of Pessimism
I realized some time ago that my thinking was fundamentally flawed and needed to change. My general worldview had become entirely unmanageable. Over the the years I've sought ways to combat the general dread of "news" with positive stories or positions in a heuristic attempt to reprogram some faulty neural networking, for the greater sake of my sanity. It's not always successful and I frequently fall back into comfortable habits like doom-scrolling and engaging in less-than-productive indulging in political palaver that goes nowhere and achieves nothing. I say all of this to pass along this article which I have found helpful recently. Hopefully, it can be of some benefit here. Or it can just get picked over and P'Oed on. Either way, I think it's worth sharing.
https://quillette.com/2024/01/26/the-seven-laws-of-pessimism/
Are you familiar with paradigm shifts? Thomas Kuhn, a famous American philosopher, proposed that all throughout recorded history, their have been endless, varying types and degrees of sharply diametrically opposed world-views, philosophies, or integrated paradigms that tend to come into conflict at different moments throughout human history that dominates predominant social, political, religious, economic mindsets that are popular for long periods of time then get replaced by more scientific, or popular or revolutionary ideas?
Kuhn used historical examples as late antiquity Greco-Roman Hellenism and polytheism/emergent Christianity that was embraced by Roman.emperor Constantine and his later ruling dynasty that later lead to Rome's infamous religious, cultural wars in the 4th and 5th C.E.'s or ancient Jews holding on to some aspects of their earlier syncretic Canaanite beliefs (2,700 years ago, some Isrealites in now-modern day northern Isreal worshipped a fertility goddess alongside Yahweh, in essence, God had a wife)/most Jews abandoning polytheism for strict monotheism about 2,500 years ago.
Kuhn also referenced scientific examples like medieval geocentricism/heliocentricism vs. Galileo's theories (if only Galileo had Newton's theories on his side, or Keppler, for that matter, their theories wouldve uniformly proven Galileo's theories.
Then there's classical liberal economics/Marxist economic theory of proletarian socialist revolution which would then lead to state-less, class-less communism.