Are you pessimistic or not and does it matter?

Ruminating on the present crisis (sic) - Cost of Living (Gas, Electricity, Petrol, Diesel etc, Ukraine, PRC and Taiwan while listening to an afternoon with Kraftwerk; I keep thinking will we survive all this? and then recall the WW1 acronym - SNAFU. Taking this summer to do some more work on what Labour might do in relation to Utility regulation and specifically the electricity market. So contrary to Roger Scruton while pessimism is necessary hope is essential!