Brockman's question

By Dave Winer on 1/2/07; 9:39:45 PM.

Every year John Brockman asks a question of the people on his mail list. This year's question is "What are you optimistic about?" I suppose it's a cop out to say The Universe. Because no matter how much we fuck this planet of ours, most of the universe is outside our grasp. It's safe from our despots, our selfishness.  

Another thing I'm optimistic about -- the afterlife. I believe we have a larger existence than we can comprehend. I believe in my dead uncle's Church of Non-Functional Probabilities. The other day I was telling a story about my uncle. A few minutes later, when we got out of the car, there was a freakish wild, cold wind. Freezing cold. When we got out of the restaurant, it was warm again. My uncle would say that was proof of god. I am optimistic about that.  

I guess I am optimistic about everything that I am not pessimistic about, which is to say almost everything. How's that John? (BTW, my mail address changed, it's dave dot winer at gmail dot com.)