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?
Western hegemony is waning and he world seems to be moving towards more instability, this will mean more political revolutions, and renewed competition for the future of humanity.
So upfront it will seem scary but in the long term this was inevitable (neoliberalism would never go quietly, too many people are invested) and the future will have to be very different.