No, you're not alone, and you're not as isolated as you think. , indeed, it appears very dark these days. My beloved Gulf on the northern coast appears mortally wounded, and dead dolphins are telling that tale. The voice of the poor appears more marginalized than ever in national campaigns during election season. But we still have plenty of cheering over further militarization of our foreign policy.
I stumbled upon this essay, and it fed my soul like a nourishing spring. I hope it feeds yours.
There is no reality-based argument denying this: The present system, as defined by the neoliberal economic order, is as destructive to the balance of nature as it is to the individual, both body and psyche. One's body grows obese while Arctic ice and wetlands shrink. Biodiversity decreases as psyches are commodified by ever-proliferating, corporatist/consumer state banality.
But the raging soul of the world will not be assaulted without consequence. Mind and body are intertwined and inseparable from nature, and, when nature responds to our assaults, her replies are known to humankind as the stuff of mythic tragedy and natural catastrophe.
"When the poet lives his hell, it is no longer possible for the common man to escape it."— Excerpt from, The Time of the Assassins, a study of Rimbaud, by Henry Miller
But take heart. As the saying goes, it is always darkest right before it goes completely black.
Rejoice in this: Seeds of futurity require the darkness within soil to dream.