“America will never be good again.” “We’ve lost the war against China.” “The robots are going to kill us.” My main issue with blackpilling is that it is entitled and lazy: Rather than work to address any of the world’s many problems, one can declare it all just too impossible—a clever trick that leaves more work for the rest of us. What’s even worse is that this terror is contagious. It’s one thing to let fear colonize your own heart; when you say it out loud to others not as a question but as a statement, you are infecting them with your disease, spreading demoralization as far as your words can go. But wait, you say, it’s normal to be afraid. We’re living in an era of one dramatic, often traumatic, event after another. How else are we supposed to understand this? Simple: You’re in a wilderness.