The real tragedy is that we don't need to live in a post-scarcity star trek utopia (which is a physical impossibility anyway). Everything any human could ever need is already in abundance on this planet. You don't need more than community, good food, and art. It's only capitalist ideology that deludes us into thinking we could ever need or want or have anything else. And it's capitalism itself that makes us unable to have these things and makes us unable to enjoy them when we have them.

Y'know why it's a tragedy when an olive grove is destroyed? Because they do not grow in a lifetime. Olive groves are a gift from those before to those after. We were not the first to sow, but we are also not the last. When you find rare fruit, share it, and one day, it may be reaped in abundance.

I've come across the idea of a "modest utopia" recently and really like it. It challenges us to reckon with the reality of an ever changing world. Even at the best of times, peace is something that must be actively built and maintained—a perpetual act of balance and not something we can ever stop thinking about or working towards. The idea of a modest utopia challenges us to think of realistic, pragmatic ways to improve the world within our immediate reach. It can take lots of studying to understand your material conditions, your place within the wider world and the ways you relate to it to be able to do that, but it's a much more achievable goal and perhaps less prone to doomerism.

Of course I understand that anyone having a shred of empathy will still experience immense grief living in the world today and I'm not trying to minimise that or any suffering, but being a doomer actually just benefits the powers that be.

What to do when you're still gonna live. Plan for the future as best you can I guess. Try to be healthy, you don't want to be 70 in poor health in the Dark Age right. Try to save money for as long as money is worth something, better to have it and not need it than the reverse.

The feeling you're talking about can be partially treated by taking action. Even the small more pointless action like recycling, composting, going vegan - never mind the bigger harder stuff.

The future is worth fighting for, at least I think so, but it isn't an easy fight by any means for sure.

There's always the gratitude of future humans

I urge you to read To Live. I think it would help you through these emotions

i have some global hope with the impending collapse of american hegemony, but that's coming from BRICS, not anything do with me and nothing that will uplift me from my misery.

Solidarity with future generations.

Do you see yourself as a Designated Individual Recipient of the trends that the world/history offers you, someone whose meaning in life is contingent on the consumption of some society-wide (read: greater power or Generalized Other) achievement?

Or do you have something you believe can be done with your own life that fits in with moving the world in the direction of "winning a future" or making things "better"?

We're in a position of uncertainty. But we can take a stance with our lives that is both intrinsically gratifying and revolutionary in the bigger picture.

Take a break from consuming doom and gloom. Go outside and touch some grass