Don’t let the hopium commenters and the ‘it was worse a thousand years ago’ crowd gaslight you. Your intuition is correct, give yourself credit. You are correct: nothing will change for the better. Fragile ecosystems on the verge of collapse, climate catastrophes, rampant fleecing of the population via unchecked corporate greed, genocides, starvation, crumbling infrastructure, and most alarming -humanity turning inwards, rejecting science, embracing fascism across the globe, and unable to grasp the ramifications and importance of the plight of the world.
You are fully justified in feeling hopeless. Hopium is humanity’s reaction to the hopelessness (religion isn’t cutting it anymore).
Your best bet is to just make peace with it. Find happiness in the collapse. Think about the nice new shiny transparency effects in iOS 26, or the sale Target is having on imported plastic lawn ornaments.
You are a witness to the end of it all. And that’s a special place in history; a front row seat if you will.
Consider who this mentality benefits most. Things are certainly going to get very awful, but as they get worse there will come a time when those most responsible are held accountable, one way or another. The sooner this occurs the more people are likely to survive. Yes, a vast many, maybe even most of us could perish, but retreating into doomerism, choosing to do nothing, means prolonging the worlds destitution by postponing change. Humans, as a collective, are not a species that likes to give up, the sooner we do something the more lives we save, even if it is just a few. I will not blame you for forsaking the collective in order to preserve the individual but pushing that mentality to others could do real harm. The only people who benefit from this choice are those responsible for our doom.
Don’t let the hopium commenters and the ‘it was worse a thousand years ago’ crowd gaslight you. Your intuition is correct, give yourself credit. You are correct: nothing will change for the better. Fragile ecosystems on the verge of collapse, climate catastrophes, rampant fleecing of the population via unchecked corporate greed, genocides, starvation, crumbling infrastructure, and most alarming -humanity turning inwards, rejecting science, embracing fascism across the globe, and unable to grasp the ramifications and importance of the plight of the world.
You are fully justified in feeling hopeless. Hopium is humanity’s reaction to the hopelessness (religion isn’t cutting it anymore).
Your best bet is to just make peace with it. Find happiness in the collapse. Think about the nice new shiny transparency effects in iOS 26, or the sale Target is having on imported plastic lawn ornaments.
You are a witness to the end of it all. And that’s a special place in history; a front row seat if you will.
Consider who this mentality benefits most. Things are certainly going to get very awful, but as they get worse there will come a time when those most responsible are held accountable, one way or another. The sooner this occurs the more people are likely to survive. Yes, a vast many, maybe even most of us could perish, but retreating into doomerism, choosing to do nothing, means prolonging the worlds destitution by postponing change. Humans, as a collective, are not a species that likes to give up, the sooner we do something the more lives we save, even if it is just a few. I will not blame you for forsaking the collective in order to preserve the individual but pushing that mentality to others could do real harm. The only people who benefit from this choice are those responsible for our doom.
Thank you for pushing back here.