"In post-Soviet Russia, you are forced to drink optimism, but in Capitalist America, optimism drinks you."

Against the power of positive thinking “The greatest hope of this election was not that the Biden administration would address these economic and ecological “trends”—but that there would be no more pathologies to probe; that they would finally all lay out on the surface. No more blaming Russians or shady data analytics companies. Nothing to see but the harsh light of day.” “Better to roll the dice with everyone who knows how much the house is stacked against them than to give up the game.”