Every day I see the world falling to shit around me. Things are only getting worse and worse and I feel powerless to do anything.
It is so hard not to feel completely hopeless at this point. Are there any white pills left?
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Hopelessness contains its own white pill.
Anyone who is hopeless or in despair about the state of the world is a wordly being. A being whose mood, temperment, and initiative is at the mercy of the physical conditions surrounding them. In other words, a slave to the world.
So your recognization of hopelessness within you represents an opportunity. It's the opportunity that subsumes and transcends all other opportunities. Will you resist or wallow in this movement of hopelessness or will you have it purged from your being? Will you cease from correcting it so that it is starved of continuity: hopelessness vanishing from you and thereby transforming your perception of the world?
The world appears as shit because you have shit-colored lenses. Do not be foolish by persuing rose-colored lenses to correct the shit-colored ones. Dispense with all lenses. Dispense with the need to have a lense. Dispense with the need to remove a lense. Dispense with correcting the mind and the mind corrects itself. Take the white pill.
Know that there are two different states of "not giving a shit" which can be confused as they can appear similar from the outside.
There is the common one which is like "There is nothing worth giving a shit".
And the rare one which is like "Seeing that nothing is worthy nor unworthy, where is there space to give a shit?".
These two are unrelated. The former is resigning himself to the fact that he may never give a shit again. The latter is not bound by giving a shit or not giving a shit. The entire subject never crosses his mind. It's finished.