Still hopeful. Today's turmoil can be a catalyst for change even if the view s muddy and dark now.

The Second Coming (1919) by William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

I believe we are in the end of days and all this war & hatred is absolutely pointless.

I am not hopeful

The way I see the world is heading is not good, I don't have much hope for the future of our youth. I think all hell is going to break loose, it's started. Free speech and in fact freedom itself is becoming nonexistent.

There’s no reason for pessimism.

Everything happening today has happened before, and will happen again.