Here‘s a link to a financial company which predicts a global period of economic, social, and political upheaval beginning in the next few years.
People with bad news tend to be labelled pessimists and ignored because most people prefer feeling good to having a realistic perspective. Of course, this is only a temporary good feeling, because having a perspective at odds with reality will eventually cause you to butt heads with reality in a very painful way. This is about to happen on a global scale, but it happens in each one of our lives all the time: you dream that the one you love feels the same way, or you delude yourself into thinking that “things will just work themselves out.” In either case you could very well prove to be wrong, and the false assurance of your fantasy is no longer any solace.
Being realistic even when it’s painful to do so will, in the long run, lead to better and more satisfying results. Ideas which make people feel good but have no realistic basis are like addictive drugs: as long as there are more drugs to sustain the habit (or the “optimistic” illusion), the devastating effects of the drug will be ignored until confrontation is forced on the addict and it’s too late to recover what was lost.