I wish this was for the lols but I’m legitimately hopeless. I keep looking for an argument that this hopelessness isn’t accurate but I just get the same platitudes.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I would argue total hopelessness is inaccurate because things can change in ways we don't anticipate. The US will collapse as all empires have, and the world will become a better place, but it will be a rough transition and things will get extra fucked as climate change worsens. Many more people are working to make things better for each other than there are people working to fuck us over, they are just better organized right now.

But anyway the level of hope you feel is more likely to be dictated by whatever material reality you are experiencing. If you are actually looking for a logical argument against hopelessness in an effort to reduce it there are better ways.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Many more people are working to make things better for each other than there are people working to fuck us over, they are just better organized right now.

This is what it has been my entire life. Since 2001 the world has been on a cyclical descent into ruin, missing every chance it had to do something, failing at ever call to action.

My personal reality is pretty awesome, though. I just want to keep them safe from the rest of the species as it descends into barbarism.