Optimism Is Not The Only Way Out...

A tally of articles containing the idea that Optimism is going to play a large part in getting us through the current crisis reveals that it is indeed a growing point of view.  Missmarketcrash was immersed in optimism as a child by her mother who read her The Little Engine That Could an excessive amount of times..."I think I can, I think I can"...

Missmarketcrash still does think she can, but, not in a delusional way.  Anything requiring Faith or Magical Realism is out out out for Missmc.  That throws much of Hollywood's annual output out the window and leaves Missmarketcrash sitting alone, reading.  Can one call oneself a Skeptical Optimist?  Not without causing people to shirk away in droves.  No.  People like emotions and optimism and feel-good sunny day people.  Religion even.  And Corporate Culture likes it too.

Corporate Culture likes optimism with regard to organizational motivation philosophies and executive training programs.   This philosophy has been adopted by child number one's private school - Missmarketcrash read a whole book provided by the school explaining the positive parenting and teaching philosophy.  Never be critical, and, if you must be, turn it around to a positive.  "I'm so very pleased you've dressed yourself and you have shown good innovation with wearing your trousers backward"... The hammer has hit the nail on the head here. Missmarketcrash remembers churning out forecasts and things where the numbers simply carried the bad things along to the month ahead where they were smothered by good optimistic projections and buried. 

Ok.  So I am not going to run back to the corporate world and repent by forecasting in a detached rigorous fashion.  And no one would hire me to do that anyway.  In corporate culture, the realists and skeptics with good analytical skills and horrid interpersonal skills tend to be hiding out in the computer rooms - why not bring one or two of them forth to look at things from a fresh perspective and let them hold monthly chats with the CEO?  And then they could respectively consult their pocket editions of Derrida and deconstruct "The Little Engine That Could" from their own corporate perspective together...