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I think one response we see too often is that in attempting to comfort ourselves from the despair, we constrain ourselves to feel-good messages, where the endings are always happy, the difficulties easily surmountable. But those messages go nowhere, they don’t even comfort us, and are almost impossible to maintain against the evidence of our own senses.
Much better, I believe, and more honest, is to look our despair in the eye and be enheartened by an ongoing resistance that is our last best hope, however forlorn that hope sometimes seems. It may be that we have constructed for ourselves what Thoreau called an atropos, a fate.
We have a system that is self-propelled, largely, by virtue of our not withholding our support for it, and not resisting it, not fighting it as hard as we can.
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Richard Drinnon
(via solitaryforager)
