Optimism à la Camus

In his Nobel prize"Conférence du 14 Décembre 1957", given at the University of Uppsala, Albert Camus, referring to a 19th c. American writer, said:

Tant qu'un homme reste fidèle à lui même, tout abonde dans son sens, gouvernement, société, le soleil même, la lune et les étoiles.
As long as a man even remains sincere to himself, all abounds in his sense, government, society, even the sun, the moon and the stars.

And added that this optimism seems to be dead today.

One wonders why...