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As a bonus, "optimalism" isn't already taken (unlike rationalism). We certainly don't want to be confused with optimists though.
There's that. "Optimal"/"optimist" has the same kind of failure mode as "rational"/"rationalize".
“Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
Interestingly, the only cult I've been in (at about age 14) is called "optimalist club" (the name is both literal translation and phonetically identical phrase in Russian; the cult is built around alternative medicine, with higher-status members being people good at health-advice-generation).
Also, The Rational Optimist was recently taken, as a book title by Matt Ridley ....