But I’m with Antonio Gramsci, from beautiful Sardinia, in his belief in ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’. Pessimism of the intellect means that you see the world as it is, not as it would be if you were king of it. You understand that the laws of gravity, economics and cancer reproduction are not subject to your whims. Optimism of the will means that you have the courage to do difficult things, because you can probably do more than you think. It means that when your world has fallen apart you get out of bed anyway.
