(I was going to post this as a comment on this stickied post, but it became such a rant against pessimism that I felt it deserved its own. Call it a rallying cry.)
I know the type (of people recently banned en masse). Going on and on about "the endless, perpetual now" because nothing they say gets upvoted enough, because no one wants to listen to a doomer long-term.
The type who despair despair despair.
News flash, dumbasses: DESPAIR IS WORSE THAN USELESS.
Despair actively seeks to PREVENT others from acting, by demoralizing others to the point that you're making them just fucking SIT THERE and think nothing can be done. So why act? Better to just type up demented rants for years on end, right?
By definition, you would accomplish MORE by just sitting in the corner and staring at a wall, because zero is greater than a negative number. You would accomplish nothing, and you wouldn't be actively preventing OTHERS from accomplishment, too.
You doomers are all talk, no ACTION.
You will do nothing.
You will do NOTHING.
"Hope is not a strategy?" Who says we were stopping at hope?
Q gave us hope. Hope made us DIG.
Digging made us learn more about who REALLY runs the world, and thus how we can stop them, than despairing and sitting on our asses ever could.
Despair is worse than useless. Despair is POISON to ACTION.
Keep on hoping, frens. The best is yet to come.
And nothing can stop what's coming.
Nothing.
"But--" What part of NOTHING did you not understand?
I have come to the conclusion that
"Trust the plan" = TRUST IN YOURSELF
No matter how small it might appear to you when you do so, calling out someone else's BS is a net positive.
The "stony" resolve of their misconceptions might not come down in the first strike of the hammer or the 100th or the 1000th but if you just keep hitting it, it will be broken. If you have seen the truth with your own senses there is not returning short of taking the proverbial blue pill and sleeping away the rest of your short life in the here and now. Becoming a junkie is about as close as one can get to that IRL. Some of us have large support groups around us and others have only themselves. I think we can all build up our supports groups every day by remembering to love them enough to tell them the truth. It is on them to recognize and accept it on their own at their own pace. Keeping in mind that there will be some who never will accept what we know to be factual. They, too, will break eventually, but I suspect it will involve being institutionalized and living the "Thorazine Shuffle".