UT TOPE" is one of the most LI. overused words in public life, up there with "change". Yet it matters enormously. Politicians pay close attention to right-track/wrong-track indicators. Confidence determines whether consumers spend, and so whether companies invest. The "power of positive thinking", as Norman Vincent Peale pointed out, is enormous. For the past 400 years the West has enjoyed a comparative advantage over the rest of the world when it comes to optimism. Western intellectuals dreamed up the ideas of enlightenment and progress, and Western men of affairs harnessed technology to impose their will on the rest of the world.
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机译：UT TOPE”是公共关系中使用最多的LI词之一，上面带有“变化”。但这非常重要。政客们密切注意正确/错误的指标。信心决定了消费者是否消费，等等。正如诺曼·文森特·皮亚莱（Norman Vincent Peale）所指出的那样，“积极思考的力量”是巨大的。在过去的400年中，西方在乐观方面享有与世界其他地区相比的相对优势。启蒙与进步的思想，西方事务人士利用技术将自己的意志强加给世界其他地区。
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