Optimism: An Essay

I agree with her on the importance of Optimism and hope, that the pessimist is a traitor to his race, that defeatism has no place in the human experience. Pessimism is being used in our age to destroy the human spirit, better to control the masses, that tends to happen when secularism seems lauded and no one believes in something bigger. But i digress, the low-ish rating is for the colonialist language taking over the examples in that essay. To believe that America is a land of the free when it was built on genocide and slavery is quite embarrassing, and that's one example. This essay is written early on in her life, and i've read some of her later works which are very different in sentiment in regard to America's past. So basically good message, great writing as usual, but arguments built on colonialist delusions.