THE SCHOOL OF LIFE FILM SERIES: Why Good Societies are Pessimistic

We may associate pessimism with bad things, but at a political level,
the world’s best societies are all experts at pessimism. 

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE - It might be normal to imagine that a good society would be one in which a majority of people held optimistic views about themselves, their fellow citizens and their prospects for their collective futures.

But, in fact, quite the opposite appears to be true: deep pessimism seems a key ingredient for the maintenance of any good society... FMI