But turly, you cannot be an optimist with humanity unless you are quite privileged. Humanity, dearest 14th dalai lama, sucks shit indeed. What I have seen is targeting mentally ill and poor people to make their lives miserable. This sheer meanness and cruelty and bad faith shows that humanity will never be worthy of optimism. There are way too many scumbags for that to be possible. And the vast majority of the humans are, according to Aldeous Huxley I think, very stupid. And mean on top of it. The stupider- the meaner. And what I mean by stupid is simply this: selfishness.