Learning more about history and the hideous tentacles of empire is...depressing. Seeing the state of the world is...depressing. My family pleading with me to vote Biden is...depressing. Being an environmental science student is...you get the gist. The only sources of positivity I see are moderately-propagandistic videos from CGTN and from PRC simps about some of the great things China is doing, but I can't completely internalize those because I am still stuck in the western/american regime of 'Positive news about China/Socialist Countries is always wrong or exaggerated' (which I'm trying to work thru) so yeah.
Is there anything to be optimistic about in the world?
I guess I'm just doomer-venting, and I'm sorry to put this on the only person to respond, but 1968 didn't even lead to much material change and we're not even there right now.
I think the difference is pace. 1968 was like a huge spark, now it's more like a rope very slowly burning away.