Actively changing stuff is all good for the attempt. The reality is things are always changing regardless of your attempts. Hoping to make things change because you feel they aren’t just means you aren’t really paying attention to the ever present change. Thinking things aren’t changing and that we need to change things, means you’re stuck in an old way of thinking. This doesn’t mean things are changing for the better. It is important to address the needed direction of the change taking place.

It’s all well to be depressed about something that is very important. Depression is no solution. The existential psychologist Viktor Frankl detailed his account of the holocaust  and explained those who had hope and meaning were ones that found the most effective ways of surviving the psychological battles of the holocaust. When you want change, you’ve found meaning, but a hopeless desire for change, without setting goals, small or large. Logotherapy was developed as a purpose driven psychological method to encourage mental stability. Logo is Latin for meaning. 

Accounting for an ever present change does not mean things are getting better as we assume with technology but also things are not staying still, if anything things are getting worse. This is no reason for pessimism or constant anger. There is no reason also to be an extreme liberal either. Things do need to change, drastically and a lot of those imbedded in the spectacle will be very upset with this change.

Hope won’t cause the change, but meaningful differencing through actions will. Do not hope for change and do not focus on minimizing your specific impact. Set goals, make plans. Viktor Frankl challenges us that instead of trying to understand why things are happening to us, figure out what needs to be done to deserve the life you want. We must embrace surviving through ecological and diversity collapse, then figure out what needs to be done to deserve to live in a world we want to live in.