I know exactly what you mean but also that normalisation of despair and acceptance of the futility of action is part of the PR machine of those who wish to do w

I know exactly what you mean but also that normalisation of despair and acceptance of the futility of action is part of the PR machine of those who wish to do whatever they want. Resisting that seems to be the right thing to do but also seems futile. I see this with climate discussions, where there's long been climate doomism but there now seems to be a tactic of moving people from the denial to doom camps, skipping the stage where people think prevention or reduction of the underlying mechanism is possible, because both denial and doomism allow people to keep on doing whatever they want.