> The reason people can believe that everything is going to be OK is because they have not taken the time to comprehend all the different things that are going wrong simultaneously, nor how seriously these things are going wrong.

Essentially saying, "nah uh" to that is not a satisfying response and tends to make me believe that our doom is essentially irrefutable at this point. And I say that as someone who tries to look for hope in the current situation. It's hard to find and I've independently come to much the same conclusion that Brain has in this article.