Complacency

Some people have said to me that there's no point complaining about what our society is lacking, it's just too depressing. Instead, they say, we should focus on being contented with what we already have, since there is no such thing as a perfect place. They call it a "having a postive attitude". Well, I tend to think of it as "complacency". Here's a nice quote from this week's double issue of The Economist:
"...were Americans not so incurably discontented with their lot, their great country would not be half as dynamic as it is."