You can approach things the positive and negative way, and the negative way drags everybody else down

This is a general rant and vent that needs to go in here because I've talked to people about it. Perhaps mentioned here before, in how Kevin Hart writes in his book about what a terrible childhood he had and he could have treated it as a terrible violence done upon him by the circumstances, but decided to make light of the situation and turned it into a funny situation.

That's what I think the problem with the current political situation in the country is, meaning the US. Everybody has victim mentality, and that's not a criticism of victimization but of the way people treat their circumstances. Like you don't have to be bitter and annoyed and angry all the time, no matter how shitty things are because you only have a limited store of those emotions. Besides such negative emotions breed more negativity and turn into a social pathology. Finally those negative emotions sap all productive energy out of one's body, meaning you don't have the ability to act on your wellbeing proactively. Not to mention a 'social depressive episode' this puts young people in is really really bad for society because when people stop thinking about the future, when they believe they don't have a future, they stop caring about the future. They stop caring about the society and other people and the social contract breaks down, further fueling social malaise and negative emotions.

The way to deal with adversity is with humor and optimism. Not by going into a societal depressive episode.