It's just as you said above - everything is politics, even if it isn't.

On the internet, you don't really have to have sources or valid reasoning in order to debate a point. People fight and debate over ideas and opinions daily with little or no proof, just because it is what they were taught to believe, or it's an opinion formed before even really knowing what they're fighting for.

No one bothers to become informed nowadays, despite this being the age of information, where such a thing is widely available, and takes a few key presses and clicks of a mouse to find.

Optimism is a dying mindset. With the way the world is nowadays, finding a true optimist is, sad to say, a rare occurrence. And even some optimists, once they're thrust face first into the actual real world become embittered and lose that terribly sunny outlook to life.

But, you can be an optimist without being naive. I wouldn't place you in the naive category. You take it upon yourself to be informed. Naivete is on par with ignorance, I feel, in which really not knowing is bliss, because then you have this preconceived notion of how things are based on what you DO know. And, sometimes, learning something shatters that world view, and you find that you would have rather have been ignorant to it all.

In a completely unrelated topic, I'm vaguely thinking about trying out a WoW PS.