I’m starting to believe the real trick to life is finding a middle ground between optimism and cynicism, so that you neither hurt yourself with hopes that get crushed by how shit the world is, nor gut yourself with despair while traveling among infinite wonders.
@Leucrotta I think of it like looking for the aluminum-foil lining - 'cause silver's expensive, y'see. 
@LexYeen I was thinking about this because of how everyone is angry and wants profoundly terrible bad guys to hate. The horrifying down side to how few actually committed hardcore terrible people there are, is how easy it is to be a basically okay person, and yet say or do profoundly terrible things. (A little like how there are very few dyed in the wool racists, but lots and lots of racism.)
