{"id":9,"date":"2018-10-27T02:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T02:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=9"},"modified":"2018-11-23T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:44:14","slug":"being-a-rational-optimist-by-yaron-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2018\/10\/27\/being-a-rational-optimist-by-yaron-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Rational Optimist by Yaron Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"x_divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div lang=\"EN-US\">\n<div class=\"x_x_WordSection1\">\n<div id=\"x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper\">\n<div id=\"x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper\">\n<div id=\"x_x_x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper\">\n<p>Why would anyone be optimistic today? Given the state of politics and\u00a0our culture,\u00a0and what we see on the news, it can be difficult not to have a negative view of the future. In this talk, delivered at Objectivist Summer Conference 2018, Yaron Brook says that contrary to popular belief, we ought to look forward to the future. By introspecting and putting the present day in its proper historical context, Brook argues, we have very good reason to be optimistic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would anyone be optimistic today? Given the state of politics and\u00a0our culture,\u00a0and what we see on the news, it can be difficult not to have a negative view of the future. In this talk, delivered at Objectivist Summer Conference 2018, Yaron Brook says that contrary to popular belief, we ought to look forward to&#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":[95,4,7,79,14,13,80,37,66,81,12,82],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ari","tag-ari-live","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ayn-rand-institute","tag-egoism","tag-ethics","tag-liberty","tag-morality","tag-objectivism","tag-optimism","tag-philosophy","tag-yaron-brook","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}