ABOUT WHAT IS PROPOSED IN THIS VIDEO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT:
look for and have a positive attitude toward "living" is appropriate and desirable because it allows us to get up every day in the morning, asearnos, work, interact, think, plan, propose better things and, ultimately, sleep. The opposite is apathy, depression and indolence. This would be a self-optimism will do what I do and is a necessary optimism. But there is another futile optimism, that positive psychology aims to sell and that would be closer to what it claims to self-help book than a serious position. Believe that a normal person be extended easily (and I dare say that even hard) to the pressures of the age, sex, intelligence, education level or economic resources seems naive. Would have to reach levels of personal discipline that enable them to avoid the powerful influence of global media and homogenized aspiring people mercilessly. And this rarely happens.
other hand, sell the belief that happiness is a desirable and achievable goal is the same in this line of dumbing down. Finally I quote
Norberto Bobbio and I join him
"I am a pessimist illustrated. I am, so to speak, an illustrator who has learned the lesson of Hobbes, De Maistre, Machiavelli and Marx. I think also that the pessimistic approach is more appropriate for the man illustrated the optimistic view. The optimist always involves a certain dose of enthusiasm, and enlightened man should not be enthusiastic. And there are also optimists who believe that history is indeed a drama but a drama with a happy ending. I only know that history is a drama, but do not know, because I can not know, a drama with a happy ending. Optimists are the others, who like Gabriel Peri, who, dying gloriously he wrote, 'will prepare shortly morning singing. " The mornings have arrived but the songs we have not heard. And when I look around me I hear no songs but roaring.
would not want this statement of pessimism to be understood as a gesture of resignation. It is a healthy act of austerity after so many orgies of optimism, a prudent refusal to participate in the feast of rhetoric forever holidays. It is an act of satiety rather than disgust. And besides, pessimism does not bridle the industry, but the routes and better directed to its target. Between the optimist whose maxim is: 'Do not do anything, you'll see how everything works out' and the pessimist replies, 'Do what you have to do, but things go from bad to worse', I prefer the second [...] Do not say that the optimists will always be fools, but fools are always optimistic. I can not separate in my mind the blind trust in the providence historical or theological vanity who believes he is the center of the world and that everything happens for his suggestion. Respect and appreciation, however, that works well without asking for assurances that the world will improve and no waiting, no awards or even say confirmations. Only the great pessimist is able to act with a clear mind, with the determined, with a sense of humility and complete dedication to duty. "
