Hope

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
-John Locke
Despair is what seems to predominate most youth these days. Assailed from childhood with advertisements and the mental prison of public indoctrination it should be no surprise. Breaking their spirits day by day until the tragedy of their teens, in which most act out or retreat inward. Either way by the time adulthood arrives, if such a term can even be used in America these days, they are quite often desperately inundated with despair. If they are lucky they have found refuge, perhaps in religion, a cause or sometimes even a job. For the rest however there is only a sort of pathetic remorse at having ever been born. Decadence is the most common and prevalent answer that I've noticed. Trying to drown their sorrow in designer drugs, alcohol and mind numbing tools of all sorts makes their despair a pastime. People of the older generations bitch about how we youngsters don't vote. But what is their to vote for? Another self serving frontman for corporate Americas seemingly endless apatite for ever more currency? Or maybe some charlatans who promises the world and delivers nothing but a harsh lesson in the foolishness of trust? No, if nothing else comes from this despair, it is a rather politically accurate realization that the product that our culture is selling is really not worth buying into. There is really only one real cure for despair, and that is hope. Hope that someday things will get better. Hope that the delineation of the world between ruler and ruled will disappear. Maybe even hope that the entire structure of western thought that has brought us to this deplorable state will be forever renounced for the false prophet that it really is. I myself found my cure in part in knowledge. Knowledge of the system, history, geopolitics, different cultures and all else I could acquire through conversation and reading. The one thing that did the most however to save me from the despair induced materialism that dominates America's youth is this: the quest to join the ranks of all decent people past and present who have done all they could to save humanity from the cold hand of hopelessness and despair. In that quest I've found a reason to keep my mind pure and free in the hope that some day people will break the chains of their mental inertia and ascend to the heights that I sincerely believe mankind is capable of.