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?
Because the pendulum is swinging.
Do you not see it all around us? Everywhere in the world today, the neoliberal empire shows cracks, in its core a rumbling can be felt as dust falls from the walls and in its peripheries a quake is raging.
Since the fall of the USSR we've seen a period of empire building unlike any other the world has ever seen and that empire is literally crumbling to pieces now. It can not hold. It is going to fall.
Yes, there is much depressing about the state of this empire and the state of the world it has created. But look at it in the positive -- its terrible state is a guarantor of its inevitable collapse. Look to this positive, that the whole world is entering a state of complete and utter turmoil, as a sign of change to come. What do you think the people will want to build out of this failure? More of the same thing that brought about this horrible situation and its complete and utter collapse? No. Of course not. Nobody will want to rebuild that which caused the situation.
Enjoy the shaking of the pillars. Socialism will win.
I don't know the exact number, but young people get more disillusioned and around 50% of people under 18 think socialism is a good thing. It's a long way to go but uncle Karl said capitalism will crumble and I trust this fellow.