I don't know about the rest of the world, but from where I stand I keep hearing the same defeated language from many different people. The non believers focus on our insignificances and the believers await their paradise, whatever flavor that might be, after a tearing down rather than a building up, of course.
The ones that wish to encourage are minimized as blind optimists and often are regarded as engaging in a fools errand. Negative language has, so far, swept through my entire existence without halting for an instant. It has been my constant companion as well as enemy. I live now and have lived in a world mainly consisting of perfectionists who cannot live in a world where they are imperfect. I live in a world where the path we tread is never as important to society as the destination, even though that has always been ultimately death.
I live in a world of lies. Lies that are told knowingly and unknowingly, but still rob society of it's dignity and it's potential. When a lie is believed the believer's existence changes based off a falsehood. When someone's existence changes it affects the existence of others close to that person as well as a random assortment of other people. Lies also have the characteristic, especially when told knowingly, of requiring continual creation of new connected lies which increases their overall strength and lowers the possibility of the Bag of Lies being uncovered.
Some lies are uncovered and that usually creates hostility within the human brain. We don't like lying it's not in us to lie, it's not in us to accept lies from others. What is in us is the will to survive of which we use Free Will to choose how to attain survival. Human's that lie to survive, especially on a regular basis, are causing unnatural variances in the timeline. When lies are allowed to fester within society they become strong and strong lies are even sometimes believed by the masses. We live in such times.
Focusing on the negative of life is furthering a very long stream of lies. At this point in time we, as sentient beings, have direct responsibility to uphold truth. Any who skate this responsibility and "give up" are a threat to society at large. The Snowball Lie has been going on for millennia now, as well as have recruited many minions. A description is given of how this whole lying process works within the Genesis account, specifically the Garden of Eden and the Bible's references to it.
The story has a serpent misleading the first humans into abandoning their safe haven given to them by their creator. The Bible then speaks of this serpent as being the "father of the lie."
The right brain, or emotional (instinctual) brain, is the closest thing humans have in relation to the animal kingdom. For a human to tell a lie it's the right brain that has to "convince" the left brain, the logic center, before the lie can be accepted as truth by the whole system. Once accepted as truth the lie can be passed on AS truth.
However, telling a lie knowingly, to get yourself out of a jam for example, doesn't require the teller to believe it. Pathological lying, however, is the end result of someone who has this "convincing" happen. It is these pathological persons in our world that do the bulk of the Big Lies that got the "ball rolling."
Think of all the lies that have ever been believed as a big ball of energy that has had time to grow for tens of thousands of years. That energy is DARK and contains great power and it should not be added to even in the slightest form. So, the next time you think about telling a lie, please, if you can help it tell the truth instead.
-Sab