hopelessness, too. A sense of meaning and ego. If you, being infinitely wise and credentialed and educated, devote your life to _fixing this big problem_, then by definition it must be an important/worsening problem, right?

If I think the thing is more important than it objectively is, makes it easier for me to keep going/do a good job

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My dad's explanation for the psychological attractiveness of doomerism is exactly that desire to feel important.