Cynicism is a trap but I can't help but feel that if you love this world and look at it honestly and it doesn't scorch you black, you're delusional.
We are really deep in a downward spiral, and seemingly powerless to arrest our momentum.
It's a fairly grim exercise, seeing.
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I constantly get accused of negativity for just noticing things that are on my radar and not going "eh, that won't be important."
This can play out 50 times and the same people who were in denial will still pretend that I was doing something wrong by noticing.
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I think seeing in this way and prob rightfully believing most don’t is what inspired people to roll up their sleeves to change course
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Seemingly inconsequential eg but a dance teacher once told me to take occasionally a class more beginner than your level to keep your calibration of how far you’ve come and thus can go. We have had huge improvements
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Dance teacher also said to take classes beyond your level to stay away from complacency... I think classes beyond in this sense is guided by ideals (which if we didn’t have we wouldn’t even recognize or be aware of inadequencies in current state). Velocity, not current point!
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It's brutal.
Some combination of collective action problems and humans just not being all that interested in species-level self-preservation.
Regarding your first statement, it's taken me years to get to the point of feeling like there is even anything significant I can do.
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But it's pretty clear I'm getting closer and closer to actually following through on my own (rather apropos) ideas, so there's that!
Not that many years back that thinking about this stuff was purely an exercise in recreational despair.
So, velocity indeed.