I am hopeful and optimistic. I define hope as believing in spite of the evidence and working actively to change the evidence. The media represents three to four percent of what's going on. We can't afford the luxury of pessimism nor cynicism. We need to be grounded optimists.
All possibilities are inherently there.
I think we can make the difference. By whatever name, the point seems to be that cultural creatives have to start coming together in small local groups to talk, and perhaps to take action beyond the talk. Isolated, the power in the numbers is vastly less powerful than when people come together. What we need to do is get together with people, figure out what kind of community we want to live in, and get to know our neighbors. But people are going to have to get together locally, create local preparation.