Hits different when you are in a foreign country (land of the free) and your middle school friend come to visit you for the week!
Back in the days i was a huge lebron fan so he used to talk shit about my goat to piss me off
When I posted this, it was considered right wing — a university had just claimed that saying it constituted a "microaggression." Now it reads as left wing, because it implicitly supports immigration.
This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.
“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”
Teleport yourself to any era in history and you will find, most of the contemporary literature / art complains about how their time is the worst. Naturally people yield to the great force of pessimism. Yet in hindsight we remember Odyssey over the bronze age collapse, Shakespeare over the plagues, Disney cartoons over WW2, Michael Jackson over the 70s stagflation.
I think thats enough evidence to conclude, the greatest art will always symbolize hope. It is in the darkness that the indomitable human spirit must emerge and shine through.