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All ideologies offer optimism as a false cure for malaise.

Drawn from what Andrei Codrescu said

Subjectoptimism
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optimism Expecting things to go well: whether it is what gets things built, or a bias that forecasts keep paying for.

What Andrei Codrescu actually said

  1. Andrei Codrescu Romanian-born American poet, novelist and essayist
    All ideologies promote a false cure for malaise: optimism.

    ↗OUR DAILY DYSTOPIAandreicodrescu.substack.com

    8 Aug 2026

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