"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness. A kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures"
From David Graeber's 2008 text "Hope in Common" by @DGI