Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9366016" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Sounds a bit excessive to me. Particularly the percentile "f@#k you, no success" thing. That's a grimdark setting through and through--something a lot of Millennials are sick and tired of seeing.Tone it down a little, though, and I think you have exactly the right idea. As I've called it before: chiaroscuro fantasy. The darkness is dark, and real, and even oppressive; it emphatically does not go away on its own and is putting a huge effort into holding everything it already has and encroaching into everything it doesn't. But genuinely good people can make a difference. Sincere effort at improving things can produce results. They will often be partial, incomplete, or preparatory, but tangible results DO happen.The world does not simply bend over backwards for heroes. But heroes can help. What it needs most is genuine exemplars, folks who have actually lived up to the lofty standards of yesteryear. Seeing one person make a difference can make a dozen more people make their own, smaller differences, and that ripples outward. It's not a unilateral salvation; it's a pulling-ourselves-up-by-our-bootstraps by way of one pebble starting the avalanche.</blockquote>