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How do you not despair? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by znsh@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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Of all the things going on in world and also locally, from housing crises, economic instability, climate crisis etc.

How does one not fall into nihilism and just general despair? Are texts out there that teach and talk about how to hold grit and optimism in times like these?

TL;DR Help I don't want to be a doomer :(

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[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hope is useless. What we need is courage.

You're fighting a losing battle. We all are. And yet the future will be secure.

And if it won't be, would you rather have had courage?

Courage. Courage in the face of it. Not hope. Courage. We will prevail, not through hope, but through courage. We will win, not through hope, but through courage.

The people who create the conditions for winning will never see the winning. They will probably never be close to seeing the winning. They will probably never be close enough to hope.

The people who create the conditions of the future, they will create those conditions through courage without hope.