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Lots to chew on here, and as usual, a lot of assumptions to unpack.

Why deride people for having "hopium" but then ask "what's an anarchist approach to hopelessness" ?
Hope or hopelessness are not the issue. Both imply giving up acting in the world (however one sees acting) now.

Thing is, we are in the midst of ongoing mass suicide, or rather, mass murder is ongoing which will eventually be suicide to those who see transcendence as real, while those of us who see the planet as real are dead whether we want it or not.
Many find ourselves dependent upon this system even as we know it is killing everything. How to untangle this is the "problem" we have before us. This is so complex, working it out for ourselves, as good anarchists do, can distract from overwhelming despair.