Oz Veloshian

The Martin Luther King, the arc of history bends toward progress.

But in the meantime, so I don't know that there's another answer to that.

I think it is a

a willingness and a discipline to look around the world and try to find areas where humanity is at its best.

even if at multiple times it is in the midst of humanity being at its worst.

But you're also a media personality, and the easiest way to succeed as a media personality is to be a doom merchant, and yet you have resisted.

Yes, that is why I'm not a more prominent media personality.

I mean, someone once said to me, there was about a five-year period where I was on CNBC a lot, and I kind of played a role in one of these talking head shows.

And someone came up to me and said, I love you on TV.

I'm not saying this is a backbiting thing.

I'm just telling a narrative that I love you on TV.

Why aren't you on more?

And I said, the question you should be asking is, how the hell is it that I'm on as much as I am, given who I am and what I do?

Because I was always the guy who a producer would be whispering in my ear and trying to goad me into a really binary, really absolute statement, which I would then ignore.

and proceed to, as politicians often do, just answer the question I wanted to answer in a rather meta and elliptical fashion.

So I do think, you know, I say it jokingly, but there is some truth to it, that there is a cost to being the person who will not do that.

I mean, there are lots of people I admire who I think whose voices are brilliant and passionate and wonderful.

So I'm not for one minute saying,

Everybody out there is dooming and glooming and being hysterical and binary.

But on the whole, increasingly, news has always rewarded bad news.