It's not hard to be intellectually honest and negative. Negativity also performs better than optimism on social media.

Much harder to be intellectually honest and optimistic with bias for action, willingness to fail, learn, ability to find the appropriate amount of signal in all feedback and then discard remaining noise, and most importantly, not quitting.

Speaking to me on this one Dan. Agree wholeheartedly. The negativity is laced with a sense of self import and superiority, which is why its so intoxicating to some. Issue is that it rallies the wrong kind of advocates, and generally solves nothing but that person's itch to self satisfy.