We often agree with John Green on many topics, but we do not agree with his thoughts shared in the latest video.

We wrote our thoughts in a comment under the video, but we wanted to share them here too.

We don't really agree with you fully on this John, if we're understanding you correctly. You make it sound like you cannot strive for a better world without having hope, but so very many people keep going not because of having hope, but in spite of feeling somewhat or even entirely hopeless. As a realistic nihilist (not an optimistic one, like from the Kurzgesagt video), there may be no inherent meaning to existence, but we get to give our life meaning. We struggle daily with intense feelings of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness not because we genuinely feel we're going to win or succeed, but because we have to try in spite of everything. That isn't clinging to hope: it's continuing in spite of hopelessness. It's siege mentality. It's expecting to lose, but refusing to give in. It's defiance, stubbornness, and spite: not hope. We make a choice every day to keep trying because there are people out there who need help whom we can help, even just a little, but sometimes a lot more than we realise. It's possible to feel so broken and destroyed that you just want to give into the void some or even most of the time, with your mood changing like the ebb and flow of the tides or a flash flood from a monsoon, but still find yourself clinging to a piece of debris when the storm clears a little, treading water with all your energy, just so you can keep somebody else's head above the water to stop them from drowning. Is this enough for anybody to keep going? Not really, and we'd never judge or criticise anybody for wanting to let go at a time of their choice, and one day we may hit a particularly-bad storm that finally capsizes us for good, but until then, we'll keep going without any real sense of hope or belief, because maybe we can help a few others... and maybe some of them will have hope and may challenge the darkness and horrors of this world.

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Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die

https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-is-youre-going-to-die/

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We Need to Die

https://willllliam.com/blog/why-we-need-to-die/

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SHORTS 173: Black Holes and Billy Joel (Not Vulgar)

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