Re: Elitists are Pessimists...

You are right. The pinnacle moment of this country was the moment of its birth. And like a newborn infant, fresh out of the womb and brought to its peak moment of life energy, from that moment on it has begun to die. It will continue moving constantly toward its most certain death. It is natural. To try to freeze-frame it onto a piece a paper is unnatural. To think that it will go on forever is certainly optimistic, but it is not realistic. To live in this life without thinking that death will ever come keeps one in a dream... the american dream.

This can be attributed to the belief in a Christian god. A god that is only optimistic, creative, progressive. In a way this is part of the problem.
This country was created out of revolution, and revolutionaries are great at taking things apart... very good at being destructive... but not very good at creating... a different kind of person is needed for that. This country will end the way it began... in revolution.

The Hindus got is more right... god is both left and right, the creator and the destroyer. The good and the bad, the god and the devil, together.
If those radicals that you speak of really trusted that there could be a better way to live, a new way of living that cherished life, liberty and happiness, then the first thing that was needed was to drop that Christian ideology that placed enjoyment of the pleasures of this very life to be sacrificed in order to achieve a hallowed afterlife. Bypassing the enjoyment of this life for some fictional afterlife... Now this is not in anyway cherishing life, it is cherishing death... it is death affirmative, not life affirmative, at the very most it is cherishing a dead life.

One is optimistic in order to cover up their self-created miserable life. But this will always keep one hoping for happiness to come some day. Optimism keeps hope alive. And happiness is never truly realized. Because it will always be in some nonexistent future, something to be pursued after... the pursuit of happiness... but never realized in this moment. One has to be in this moment to realize it, but is too busy chasing it down to be found in some far away future moment... this is what the optimistic person is about... goals, ambition, achievement... safety, security, a padded cushion... a padded cell...
And one may wonder why Socrates talked against family values…

Being an American, is being a masochist... there is something more than being an American... being a human being is more than being simply an 'American'. I am proud to be a human being.
I have heard that to make it right, so that Americans will not suffer a future holocaust, is to give America back to the Indians that they stole it from.

Since that is not likely to come about, then, enjoy hoping for the best, enjoy your optimism while you are able... it is your right. the right to remain miserable.