Using a meme from a dystopian movie for "hopeposting"? Balsy, for sure. Every human dies in that movie (Ex Machina).
I'm okay with being happy despite hardship, but I draw the line at gaslighting myself. I only bring it up because I have several friends who will choose to ignore anything negative, especially politics, even if it directly affects them.
My brain chemistry causes the physical structure that houses it to create the hatred and ambivalence emotions almost perpetually.
Absurdism is preferable to nihilism
Agreed, though I go back and forth depending on how depressed I am in a given moment.