Hope vs despair is often within our power to chose and it is a political choice. Choose despair and you make bad outcomes more likely as it is a contagious feel

Hope vs despair is often within our power to chose and it is a political choice. Choose despair and you make bad outcomes more likely as it is a contagious feeling. Choose hope and you make good outcomes more likely, and make the process of fighting for the good outcomes more effective and more fun for all. It is the social form of the prisoners dilemma: choose your response assuming there is nothing special about being you in particular, and assume that you are choosing form any. Do you want to live in a group where everyone does A or everyone does B. This also leads to more flexible choices: I’d like to live in a world where most people pick up trash a few percent of the time. Where most people lobby for carbon tax and electric cars and whatever the solution for cement and steel are.