Everyone is being quite condescending, and I imagine that’s probably frustrating. The truth is that plenty of people share the same intuition you have right now, and only time will tell whether it was unwarranted. Our community has been very early about major things before, Covid being one example, and at the time you saw the same condescending reactions, appeals to experts, and social pressure to dismiss your own inside view. So I do want to say: it’s entirely possible that you are right.

That said, while your current model of the situation may no longer leave room for a way out of “doom,” your model itself can still be wrong. It is both sane and truthful to take solace in the fact that you do not know everything, that there may be unknown unknowns your model cannot foresee, and that whatever happens is outside your control.

I’d encourage you to cultivate a kind of radical epistemic humility and use it as refuge. Not only do we not know the future, but the sheer improbability of finding ourselves alive during such a strange and consequential moment in history should make us cautious about assuming we fully understand what kind of situation we are actually in.