Pessimismo dell’intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà

This video that starts off talking about how dumb Joe Rogan is—a relatively easy target—was fine but it contained an absolute banger of a revolutionary call from Hasan.

JOE IS SO GONE… by HasanAbi (YouTube)

“What has stopped you from giving up? Not only am I an unimaginably stubborn person, but I also have a firm belief in my fellow man. I believe in you guys in this community. I believe in people that I haven’t met yet. I believe in the kindness of strangers. I know that we can overcome this. I can’t just give up. And I know neither can you.

“Pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will.

“Revolutionary optimism.

“Cuz at the end of the day, what do you do? What do you do? You just give up. We can’t afford to give up.

“And even if someone like myself could afford to give up quite literally, you know, off, go somewhere else, stop streaming, put my money in the stock market, S&P 500, baby, 18% growth, year-over-year, hell yeah.

“I don’t want to live in a world where these delusional losers win.

“I don’t want to live in that world. That world sucks.

“I think one of the most annoying parts about this is that these delusional losers don’t even realize that they are actively and aggressively pursuing a world that is worse than the one that we live in right now.

“I don’t want to live in that world.”

Investing is helping them. Stop investing. Stop giving them money, hoping to make money for yourself.

I liked the expression “Pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will” so much that I looked it up. It comes from Pessimismo dell’intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà by Antonio Gramsci (Wikipedia),

“Antonio GramsciIn un editoriale pubblicato su “L’Ordine Nuovo” nell’aprile 1920, Gramsci attribuisce il motto a Romain Rolland:”

“La concezione socialista del processo rivoluzionario è caratterizzata da due note fondamentali, che Romain Rolland ha riassunto nel suo motto d’ordine: − Pessimismo dell’intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.”