By your definition, I'm a pessimist too, but more accurately I think I'm just a realist. The problems have grown so numerous and so large, that to correct all of them would take so much effort and violence as to be either impossible or horrific. However, all of us in opposition to this insanity don't have to do anything to defeat it, because everything built upon lies ultimately defeats itself. All we have to do is wait. Unfortunately, we're all stuck in the thick of it (more or less) with the rest of these idiots that pushed us into this mess.

If we were closer to nature, these idiots would just die off naturally as proud Darwin award winners, but we've become so successful as to insulate ourselves from immediate reprisal by nature, and these idiots aren't alone, they're steering society, and the mass casualties that will lie directly at their feet due to their malfeasance, or evil, will probably make Stalin blush.

The collapse is inevitable. You could not design a society that will destroy itself more perfectly than the one we're in. For someone not to see what's coming they'd have to be willfully ignorant or fully propagandized. We're following in the footsteps of Rome and Weimar. Where it goes, I'm not sure. All I can do is prepare for the collapse, because unlike the past there is no where left to run.