Take that, hopelessness !
This from Derrick Jensen via email :
The world doesn’t need for us to cope with our feelings of helplessness. The world needs for us to fight back.
In learned helplessness experiments, a minority of subjects manage not to become helpless. Some psychologists have attributed this to the ability of a person to identify the source of the problem as outside of themselves. I think that’s what has to happen with magical thinking too. People have to realize that action is not the same as their thoughts. Otherwise it's just a mechanism to displace responsibility.
My hopelessness did not like reading that this morning but I know he is right.