I think it’s significant that so many people are bizarrely willing to support a “devil’s advocate” as if this is some sort of valid position and yet no such energy is offered to the good-side advocate. The “angel’s advocate,” if you will.
It seems to me that for a people to succeed, there has to be way more people asking “What if it all turned out good?” than asking “what if it all goes to hell?”
Without that, I think a society is doomed to die alone, screaming into the void “See, I knew it would all suck!”