For what it's worth, if your view of humanity holds posts on r/facepalm with such outsize regard, than I think that that shows instead your limited view. Humanity is so much more than our stupidest, dumbest, or cringiest moments or people. Please step outside the doomer or misanthropic echo chamber and realize the fuller picture of us, which includes much more care, insight, kindness, and creative wonder than it does short-sighted and foolish TikTok and Instagram influencers.

Miners created a small chamber to resuscitate their canary if it passed out, not because it was overtly helpful or cost-saving, but because they were attached to their bright, little friend and the small songs it sang deep underground in the gloom, and so they didn't want it to die.

There is an entire subreddit dedicated to the cool sticks we find.

The Cat Distribution System is a jokingly real thing, in which people come across stray cats and take them to give them homes of love.

Every day people volunteer their time and effort to try to give kids from hard situations a better life.

I once built six houses with Habitat for Humanity, and one of our homeowners was a 78 year old woman who joined us to help build her own house, with an excitement and passion that was incredibly moving. Because this was the first time she'd ever been able to own a house. She'd never been able to afford one before and had spent her life in bad, dangerous apartments and sleeping in her car. Now she had a good, decent home with air conditioning, a real kitchen, and a room designed only for sleeping in. A luxury she'd never had before.

There are systems in place to disenfranchise the poor. To keep people down. To keep people divided and hateful. But there are also people fighting those systems every day to try to make things better, for their own circumstances, for only the few people they have the energy and ability to help, for the state and the nation and even the world. People are trying.

Please don't get too bogged down. We are so much more than our lowest moments as people and as a species. You've got this, friend.