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Europe’s economic struggles are reflected in its political situation, with many European electorates now mired in a sense of hopelessness and sliding toward ideological extremes.
Mired in corruption, poverty, and hopelessness, it is stained by the highest rates of AIDS infections anywhere in Europe and by startling rates of drug abuse.
We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990’s taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.
Bloodshed, division, and hopelessness sow the seeds for terrorism and extremism.
Typically, they want to escape conditions of hopelessness, as many Europeans did when they left their homes in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, usually for America.
In January 1917, from his Swiss exile, Lenin noted with bitterness and hopelessness that: “We, the old, will hardly live till the decisive battles of that forthcoming revolution.
The result is a combustible mixture of extremism and hopelessness that threatens to consume the Pakistani state, as government-sponsored terrorists now turn on their erstwhile patrons.
The Mediterranean Sea has long been a watery grave for those fleeing war, poverty, and hopelessness to the east and south.
The leaden despair of lifelessness, impotence, and hopelessness is vastly less appealing than intensity – even if that intensity is found in violence, death, and destruction.
Feelings of hopelessness and despair at the center incite extremism at the fringes.
If more jobs do not appear in these places, and doors to immigration remain shut, it should be no surprise that events born of frustration and hopelessness will occur with ever-greater frequency.
Retired high-level officers from all branches of the US Armed Forces have taken this logic a step further, telling congressional leaders that combating terrorism requires addressing its causes, such as lack of opportunity, insecurity, injustice, and hopelessness.
Moreover, the north’s troubles are only part of a wider national story of surging unemployment, restless young people, endemic corruption, and a growing sense of hopelessness.
Third, prolonged misery and hopelessness for millions of Arab young people will create a new generation of desperate jihadists who blame the West for their despair.
And it will be decided by the success of our efforts to stop terrorist recruitment; address the intolerance, economic hopelessness, and exclusion that help create vacuums which extremism fills; and create credible, visible, and empowering alternatives to violent extremism in countries where it is prevalent.
The result of all this is spreading hopelessness.
It is a severe and prolonged state of mind in which normal sadness grows into a painful state of hopelessness, listlessness, lack of motivation, and fatigue.
As depression worsens, feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness combine with low self-esteem, guilt, memory loss, and concentration difficulties to bring about a severely painful state of mind.
Recent popular demonstrations, from the Middle East to Israel to the UK, and rising popular anger in China – and soon enough in other advanced economies and emerging markets – are all driven by the same issues and tensions: growing inequality, poverty, unemployment, and hopelessness.
Exactly 20 years ago, French moviegoers were shocked by a gritty, low-budget black-and-white film called “La Haine” (Hatred) that conveyed the poverty and sense of hopelessness in a run-down immigrant district of Paris.
But the biggest danger of all is a sense of hopelessness.
And in hopelessness, as we now know all too well, lie the roots of future violence in the Middle East.
We must also strike at the root to deprive their dangerous ideology of the power to rise again among people left vulnerable by an environment of hopelessness and desperation.
Every day that we take a step toward delivering economic development, creating jobs, and raising standards of living, we undermine the ideologies of fear and hate that feed on hopelessness.
Such views may be reinforced by the feelings of depression and hopelessness that often arise when workers lose their jobs or face career crossroads.
Media worldwide have been reporting on Venezuela, documenting truly horrible situations, with images of starvation, hopelessness, and rage.
For starters, observers underestimated citizens' ever-deepening sense of hopelessness, which has driven them to support jihadi groups or the Assad regime.
Only utter hopelessness can drive so young a man to such an act.
Such inertia breeds hopelessness, and a nihilist yearning for violence.
Many will encounter hopelessness and exclusion there, rather than the good jobs and better life for which they came.
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