Why the focus on goodness winning

Some story places are based on powerful evil existing & growing, and epics enacted as good, in the form of fallible, mortal heroes, striving mightily against great odds, often failing and turning traitor in tragedy after tragedy, before the hard won, temporary victories.

Some fiction universes feature not the bipolar struggle between good & evil, but with order versus chaos instead.
Or they go further, where considerations of morals & ethics subsume amidst the diversity of other considerations, such as gain, advantage, benefit, profit & power.

I believe in the right, the sensible and the practical ultimately holding supreme over all else.
I see it as the inexorable outcome of all strivings and struggles.
It is about optimism, about cheer despite adversity, about learning from the past and starting from the present towards a better future.

The latest form of this belief is here in World & Space, Island & Islet, and the Wise.

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