How To Not Lose Hope When It Seems Hopeless

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7 min readOct 24, 2024

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If you consume news, especially, the western news, it’s easy to lose hope entirely. Atrocity after atrocity, at this point they want us to see. As Colombian President Gustavo Pedro said, “The European Union, the United Kingdom and above all the United States — they all support dropping bombs on people because they want to teach a lesson to the entirety of humanity. They are telling us: look at our military power. What happens to Palestine can happen to any of you if you dare to make changes without our permission.

So much evil, so much evil, so much evil, and they’re getting away with it. The evil keeps happening and even accelerating. The ghetto that dared rebel is being exterminated, and now they’re massacring Lebanese. The White Empire (all the countries Pedro lists, without the mouthful) wants us to see and see clearly. This is what happens when you rebel. We kill your children, we destroy your hospitals, we uranium the fields. This is what they want the whole world to see — starved, sickened people, genocided every single day — in our phones, in our homes, on TV. This is the public torture and execution of an entire people, entire cities of martyrs marched into the Cable-TV Colosseum, to assert the power of Empire most aggressively.

Whenever I feel hopeless like this, you know what I do? I leave. I leave imperial sources, I leave the English language as much as possible, and I read the Resistance directly. And then I read their higher authority…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.