<p>An Alternative to Hope: Or, The Secret Medicine for When the Thing With Feathers Stop Singing</p>
<p>I was inspired to make this video obviously because of John Green’s June 25th video, where he talks about taking a break from making videos because: depression, and he concludes with his familiar assurance that despair is a lie, hopelessness is a lie, that life is meaningful, and your life matters. He says he’s going to spend the month of July reminding himself that Emily Dickinson was right, “that hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtNH6hIsxyY" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Emily’s Youtube</a></p>
<p>(The source for this episode)</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUM6BXZG8E&t=0s" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">John's video</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54IsUFKFy-I&t=0s" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Amelia's response to my response</a></p>
<p><a href="https://emilynagoski.substack.com/p/an-alternative-to-hope" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Read this post on my newsletter here</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CouwtVCiFEA&list=PLHPyAlMUJ09TT2_U2yKRZoNVBtVb9T4n-&index=183&t=0s" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sonya Renee Taylor</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vhXFojqCPg48XxsGpw9N2wucIXgKzpTVq6pS1RAmvfM/edit?tab=t.0" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">"A Prayer for the Collective"</a></p>
<p>(google doc)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQTfzvopT4&t=26s" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">On the “Metaverse”: Rich White Men Looking to Escape the World They Created</a></p>
<p><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691151526/how-we-hope" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">"How We Hope" by Adrienne Martin</a></p>
<p>(excellent book)</p>
