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Dynamic Optimism
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DYNAMIC OPTIMISM
An Extropian Cognitive-Emotional Virtue
©1998
by
Max More
more@extropy.org
maxmore@primenet.com
One of the five fundamental principles of Extropianism is Dynamic Optimism (D.O.),
which can be defined as: "A positive and empowering rational attitude toward our
individual and collective possibilities." This definition must be taken in the
context of the following discussion since "optimism" has been used in a variety
of senses. A major objective of this essay is to clarify the nature of a type of optimism
appropriate to a rational extropian philosophy, and to distinguish it from the very
superficially similar attitude of faith common to religions. Explication of D.O. will make
it obvious how it mutually supports the other Extropian Principles, especially Boundless
Expansion and Self-Transformation.
The following essay is a thoroughly revised version of my original essay on Dynamic
Optimism from 1991.
Optimism: The fuel of heroes, the enemy of despair, the creator of the future.
The Effective Optimist
Angry faces filled the meeting room in my Oxford college. A student presented to the
meeting yet another proposal for a protest. Righteous wrath amplified her voice as she
spoke of a letter condemning corporations investing in South Africa. During the 1970s, the
protests had been against nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and pollution. During the
mid-80s, while I studied at Britain’s Oxford University, the protesters complained
about apartheid, hunger, poverty, and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.
Surrounded by gloomy, pessimistic protestors, I realized that the object of the protest
was not the important thing. What mattered was simply to protest , to be against
something or someone. These often well-intentioned people had adopted protest as an
approach to life.
Many of us discove"
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