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2024-04-01

Here’s a throwaway line from Robert Heinlein’s ambitious but runaway novel, Time Enough for Love (1973), that should capture the current mood, as we start a new week, a new month, a new quarter, and a new season:

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun—and neither can stop the march of events.