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another insight is that the framing of "hope" is increasingly implausible and feels like a form of cruel optimism — but an alternative framing that is not "despair" is not yet articulated. there doesn't seem to be a credible, realist, pragmatist stance that is also overtly well-intentioned (both synchronically and diachronically)

july

Optimism as I see it at times —  is a sort of toxic positivity that comes from a place of laziness or refusing to recognise that the state of the world is not great. It allows you to hold yourself he feeling of things working out while glossing over its complexity —- easy yes, manifested as a viewpoint. It's the attitude of refusing to remember that animals were once alive when you eat them. Fear or negativity is refusing to eat the animals because they were slaughtered.

The alternative path is a lighthouse: placed on the edge of the ocean as a beacon of hope or devotion - it's recognizing that the animals were slaughtered and that is the cost that it takes, it takes life. It takes life, because life begets life. This is the price that you pay to live. I want to do right in the world by honoring that their life. That is more along the lines of what I hope for in the world.

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Was thinking of something similar

https://farcaster.xyz/july/0xa07158ed

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the framings of "abundance" and "hope" do seem to fall into this category too often