Douglas Schuler describes that the internet is full of two types of people; optimists and pessimists. He states that people are “looking for reasons for not getting …show more content…
As meliorism tend to allow people to work together to stop things that concern them. Schuler quotes Shakespeare “if neither an optimist nor a pessimist is, who or what should we be” (248). What he means by this is that both optimists and pessimist have the same view when regarding human effort on which people do not care. He suggests that having a meliorism point of view would change things.
With this statement of Schuler’s, I am in two minds. In one hand people who work together to support a cause are a force to be reckoned with as they would not care if harm came there way. While if a person was strong-minded about a cause they would be on the streets fighting by themselves as when they see that something is wrong they will speak out against it.
Also, Schuler suggests that business need to stop looking at things to make a profit and to get involved because they actually care. Here he explains that business has “dubious aims like developing social imagination” (Schuler 249). What he means is that businesses only look to make a profit when they support a movement, not because they actually