Jeremy Keith

Nov 9, 2024, 9:31 AM -05:00

Optimism

I think of myself of as an optimist. It makes me insufferable sometimes. When someone is having a moan about something in the news and they say something like “people are terrible”, I can’t resist weighing in with a “well, actually…” Then I’ll start channeling Rutger Bregman, Rebecca Solnit, and Hans Rosling, pointing to all the evidence that people are, by and large, decent. I should really just read the room and shut up. I opened my talk Of Time And The Web with a whole spiel about how we...