Reading Candide | Alexandria
Read Candide by François Voltaire. Challenging blind optimism, Voltaire's satirical masterpiece exposes how "best of all possible worlds" thinking breeds complacency. His biting critique of Leibniz's philosophy eerily mirrors our modern tendency to rationalize systemic problems rather than solve them. Through Candide's misadventures, we see how false positivity can be more dangerous than honest discontent.