It's not hard to feel pretty low if you try to be connected to the world and exercise some level of intelligence. Sometimes the more I learn about the world, the more it looks to me like a live-action version of the Jerry Springer show, only with extra spite and stupidity. However, there's a lot of good in the world too, and that's what I try to remind myself of and be some small part of.

I find about the only thing that resists existential depression is to find something personally meaningful and significant, especially if it involves other people as well, and do more of that.