I agree that's a beautiful song. But it still doesn't change my original point, nor do I see what it has to do with what I wrote in my previous post.

Clinging onto an "impossible dream," in my view, means we aren't looking at all of the realistic options in front of us. I fail to understand how you thought my comments were the opposite of pragmatism.

If we narrow our realistic options down to only one -- doom and fatalism -- then you are, by definition, creating a template for misery. This is the type of grifting that Wildfire and Umair (and their imitators) do so habitually. Saying there's only one possible misanthropic outcome in the face of multiple unexplored paths is the very definition of learned helplessness.