{"id":675,"date":"2022-08-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=675"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:16:38","slug":"why-im-still-optimistic-in-spite-of-everything-by-yaron-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/why-im-still-optimistic-in-spite-of-everything-by-yaron-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m Still Optimistic in Spite of Everything by Yaron Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s difficult not to be discouraged at the state of today\u2019s world: our dysfunctional politics, our battered economy, and a culture sinking deeper and deeper into irrationality and nihilism. In this talk, Yaron Brook explains why despite all of this, he is still optimistic. The signs of hope don\u2019t make the headlines, but they\u2019re all around us: from the continued innovation of the tech sector to the continued functioning of markets and businesses as engines of wealth- and job-creation, to the outraged backlash against the nuttiest ideas, to the persistent, gradual rise of Objectivism as it continues to reach more people and change more lives.<br><br>Recorded live on July 7, 2022 as part of the Objectivist Summer Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult not to be discouraged at the state of today\u2019s world: our dysfunctional politics, our battered economy, and a culture sinking deeper and deeper into irrationality and nihilism. In this talk, Yaron Brook explains why despite all of this, he is still optimistic. The signs of hope don\u2019t make the headlines, but they\u2019re all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[745,168,12,25,744],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-current-events","tag-economy","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-the-future","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}