Spot on. For those of us who like to plan and set goals it can be difficult with future so uncertain but yes being in the now and connecting with Mother Earth really helps. Connecting with Universe and nurturing the trust.I think many of us have probably had similar thoughts at various times, Neil. I've had similar fantasies about the future, picturing an utterly bleak scenario where the will to live is weak. But when I have those, I tend to remind myself that I'm slipping into useless imagination. The fact is, I'm not living in that situation. And really, as much as I think I know how I'd react in such a situation, I don't. I've had countless anxieties and fears throughout my life, and each time I face one of them, I'm surprised at how faulty my projected imagination of it really was. Some of them turned out to be adventures I do not regret having in the slightest.
I may be off here, but I sometimes get the impression that you may be living a bit too much in that scary future. The fact is, you're here, with us, in the here and now, not in some post-apocalyptic Terminator nightmare. Ok, so you know that right now, you wouldn't want to live in such a world. Ok. How about you file that away, having established it for yourself? As it currently stands, though, it's still a fantasy. What would the Stoics say? There really is only the present, and I think it would probably do all of us some good to cultivate it, rather than banking on some future scenario, whether hellish or heavenly. We cannot know the future. We could die today or tomorrow. Even if our imagined future comes, it may come after our time. What will the point have been in expending energy worrying about it? Better to let heaven or hell just provide some fire for the present, IMO.
I also regularly dedicate some time to actively visualise the world I would like to live in. I believe in YCYR paradigm only as far as the saying - were focus goes energy flows. I decided to be prepared for the worst but behave like i have all the time in the world to get where I want to be and work hard every day toward this goal. That is why I am very optimistic about the future.
I am pretty sure overlords of entropy count on most of humanity being in constant state of despair and anxiety about the future so every little helps.