The Disease of Melancholy and Pessimism in Otherwise Thriving Communities

Content Warning: Political discussion.

Note: Some people have a medical or psychiatric conditions that makes a positive and constructive mindset much more difficult to maintain. Not all mental illness, physical ailments, or neurdivergence is cause of negativity either, but some can get in the way of a brighter outlook. This article is not about them. This article is about toxicity from otherwise well minded people that choose to be pessimistic and hopeless. We have more power over our minds then we allow, and as vampyres, don't we owe it to ourselves to be the light in someone elses darkness rather then continue the stereotype of 'sad goth' or 'sorrowful monster'?

If you have spent enough time in any alternative scene you have likely heard phrases like "No future," "dead inside," or other phrases that relinquish personal responsibility at best or are just overall hopeless and undiscerning at worst. When do those phrases stop being comedic and just become statements of ill intent that lead to inertia?

In any community that seeks to sustain and evolve, these and similar phrases are poison in the well because they stem from intellectually lazy, or even pompous, mindsets. These mindsets spread like memes because they are easy to fall prey to. It's easier to give up and walk an opaque and fruitless path then to seek the brightness and sweetness of possible futures.

Often, traditionalist minds gets stuck in outdated and harmful thinking. These lead to meloncholy as they understand suffering

on a former cultural and personal level that the modern community may not. This isn't just in the Vampyre Community, either. We see it in almost all major religions and political groups - left, right, and center. Politically we call it 'extremism' in religion we call it 'zealotry.'

This is where a modern approach is favored over a traditionalist one for evolution of personal goals and group standards. To stay stuck in dredgery not only deadens ones own mind but creates a shared meloncholy that doesn't benefit anyone.