And the people proselytizing despair get away with it because toxic positivity has been such a powerful negative force. Hope isn’t smiles and ignorance, it’s riding to the black gate trusting that Frodo and Sam are doing their jobs even though you can’t personally see them.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2026
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I like your take on hope. Doing your part hoping the rest of your battle group is doing theirs too.
It relies on trust, which there is also too little of nowadays.
I think this is because we're missing our Aragorn. We need someone to rally us and nobody has yet risen to do so.
Sounds like Greta
Too bad she doesn't have an awesome sword
YET
My eyes roll out of my skull every time I see some "humanity is doomed, it's our nature to kill ourselves, if only we weren't so selfish and shortsighted" spiel, which always ignores the actual structural causes of the problems in favor of some weepy original sin diagnosis.
This is just "misery loves company" with more words.
doomscrolling the palantir
What a brilliant image and very in keeping with Tolkien's disdain for modern technology. Sauron using technology to run a psyop on Gondor, and it worked.
I don't understand why they removed Denethor's Palantir from the movies, it's like the whole point of his character, without it nothing he does makes sense
As they say, “misery loves company.”
He was so in despair he started eating tomatoes absolutely unhinged