We all have our limits of what we can handle, but at what point does pessimism become a self-fulfilling cycle of guaranteed failure? No one knows how this shit is going to pan out. There is no useful precedent to compare to.
Playing down your agency as a human is a safe bet though, because wallowing in your sense of helplessness is the "thoughts and prayers" of the left right now. It exempts your sad sack ass from having to spend energy even imagining what may be within your power to influence, let alone blazing a trail to goddamn victory.
But that's okay. No single person or ideology is going to fix this, and everybody needs a break from time to time.
You Gen-Xers are in love with being jaded pragmatists, which is fine. I find it quite endearing how you cast yourselves as stoic, anti-hero observers that disavow any charges of seeming slightly optimistic about anything, but nonetheless still contribute towards the greater good like the ironic little fuckweasels you are.
I can still see the hope stains on your shoes though.
Playing down your agency as a human is a safe bet though, because wallowing in your sense of helplessness is the "thoughts and prayers" of the left right now. It exempts your sad sack ass from having to spend energy even imagining what may be within your power to influence, let alone blazing a trail to goddamn victory.
But that's okay. No single person or ideology is going to fix this, and everybody needs a break from time to time.
You Gen-Xers are in love with being jaded pragmatists, which is fine. I find it quite endearing how you cast yourselves as stoic, anti-hero observers that disavow any charges of seeming slightly optimistic about anything, but nonetheless still contribute towards the greater good like the ironic little fuckweasels you are.
I can still see the hope stains on your shoes though.