Despair
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His look of
despair
speaks to what many in Venezuela are feeling as they wonder how much longer their country must suffer violence and misrule.
However tough things looked in the past, I have never felt such a sense of
despair
about Palestine and Israel.
A more peaceful world will be possible only when Americans and others begin to see things through the eyes of their supposed enemies, and realize that today’s conflicts, having resulted from desperation and despair, can be solved through economic development rather than war.
Likewise, amid widespread discouragement and despair, a second progressive era is now taking hold across the US, particularly in the western states, which have a rich history of bringing democratic governance into line with changing economic realities.
As emergency physicians at a Los Angeles hospital that serves the city’s most disenfranchised residents, we are no strangers to tales of
despair.
Humanitarian aid helps – indeed, it is essential – but it is not enough to turn
despair
into hope.
If voters in decaying French villages and small-town America succumb to
despair
and lose hope in the market economy, they will be vulnerable to the siren song of ethnic nationalism or full-bore socialism, either of which would destroy the delicate balance between markets and the state.
For this reason, the income and longevity gaps that the trend in deaths of
despair
has revealed are now widening further.
That said, we do not believe that the post-COVID economy will provoke a spike in deaths of
despair.
Notably, deaths of
despair
were rising before the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession, when US unemployment rose from 4.5% to 10%, and they continued to rise as unemployment gradually fell to 3.5% in the days before the pandemic.
Nonetheless, past episodes suggest that those entering the labor market in 2020 will have a lower earnings path throughout their working lives, possibly creating the
despair
that brings death from suicide, alcohol, or drug overdoses.
But in 2019, anger and
despair
have replaced dreams and hope, notwithstanding the reasonable possibility of improvement in countries such as Sudan and Algeria.
In Dickensian terms, to reach a “spring of hope,” we first must endure a “winter of despair.”
They have been times when the audacity of hope is replaced with despair, disillusionment, and falsehood.
Its proposed budget has prompted
despair
in the business community, with an unexpected tax increase on foreign investors leading many of them to sell their Indian holdings and leave.
These ten risks, already looming large before COVID-19 struck, now threaten to fuel a perfect storm that sweeps the entire global economy into a decade of
despair.
The combination lends itself more to popular action than to
despair.
While the middle class has shrunk, a growing cohort of working-class white people has fallen into
despair.
Similarly, slashing social programs might make workers even more desperate to find jobs; but
despair
won’t translate into additional employment if the spending isn’t there.
And the millions of migrant workers who trudged home in
despair
during the lockdown have found themselves no better off in their home villages’ stagnant economies.
Second, and relatedly, many of the determinants of long, healthy lives fall outside the health system, and are connected to work, education, and community, as economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have shown in their work documenting “deaths of despair.”
The fact that today’s deaths of
despair
disproportionately affect middle-aged individuals points to the third realization: longevity is about all-of-life and not just end-of-life outcomes.
The fact is that we need other humans in our lives to avoid despair, and we need encounters with those unlike ourselves to sustain our diverse democracies.
That would slow the recovery, resulting in economic
despair
and related health and social problems for many Americans.
One reason Kennedy ran for president was his
despair
at the poverty and inequality he witnessed in the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The coming year can therefore mark a breakthrough for the planet, a positive coda to the deaths and
despair
of 2020.
Unsurprisingly, the findings were greeted with
despair.
When the true scale of the epidemic finally became clear, Chinese public opinion reflected a predictable mix of anger, anxiety, and
despair.
Here, too, one worries especially about the US, given its relatively limited safety net, its opioid crisis, and its “deaths of despair.”
That does not mean policymakers should throw up their hands in
despair
because climate policy is too complicated.
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