Nihilism and “negativity” are overvalued. They really are. We lament in hopelessness looking all around us and wondering why it is this way. But never really looking into, WHY, it is this way, we just forgot and placate and agitate ourselves with memes, news, futile arguments, mass produced media, whatever it is.
We don't look at the writing on the walls. We turn a blind eye. We suspect people who are “positive” because we've been trained to think that way. We've been trained to be suspicious of happiness.
Of thinking that it could be any other way. That the things happening around us are not inevitable, are in fact preventable, and we can prevent them. We really can. I'm not just saying it. We've been herded into a psychological prison, most of us are barely reaching a fingertip out of, let alone an arm, a hand, or a leg. But we can break each other out of it. And the more of us that break out, the more of us will be free. Free each other. Don't lament in the face of horror. Laugh at it. Cry at it. Do anything but thinking that it has to be this way, and always has been this way. It's not. We can free ourselves, and we HAVE to do it together. We can't afford to be hopeless. The rich can. We don't have to adopt their ways.
We can be free.