Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Towards the end of their lives, former President John Adams asked former President Thomas Jefferson whether he would live his life over again. The third president answered in the affirmative: ‘I think with you, that it is a good world on the whole; that it has been framed on a principle of benevolence, and more pleasure than pain dealt out to us.’ Not everyone agrees, of course. Jefferson called these people ‘gloomy and hypochondriac minds,’ who ‘always count that the worst will happen because it may happen.’ Jefferson has a challenge to those whom we today call ‘the black-pilled’: ‘How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened!’ Jefferson confessed to lacking hope sometimes, but not as often as the perpetually gloomy.” (07/04/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/07/04/waiting-for-the-day/