Did you listen to Hell on Earth? The conclusion to that really helped me get past this kind of doomerism to the possibility that things will not just keep going like they have been, forever. The world is ending, yes, but it's been ending before. And it's utterly impossible to see past the here and now to realize which people, ideas, efforts, movements, and actions will (and which won't) ultimately decide the course of history.

Awfully hard to recognize all of that right now, though, as the global hegemon continues to ignore the deafening chorus of experts insisting that we're almost out of time to preserve a recognizable world.