People manage to find bright spots even in darkness. Find a way to spin it, to be happy. Reason to wake up in the morning, to go to work, to smile. Human nature; would find a reason to rejoice even as world crumbles around them. Way we're made. Want to be happy even if utterly terrified. Easier to delude themselves than accept unpleasant truths.

You have your motivation. I have mine. [A pause, considering, then:] Appreciate attempt to help, but find it difficult to be motivated by positives when entire world is likely jumping for joy over peace orchestrated by a megalomaniac.