Hopefulessness

Hopefulessness: noun. The amount of the lack of hope. In other words you determine how much you lack hope by determining how much hopefulessness you have. The unit for this scale is known as the "unhappy face" and is showed as follows: " :( ". This has been implemented since the 1920's during the Great Depression. The world level of hopefulessness has fluctuated since the 1920's, but peaked in the 1940's. Why this is, no one has been able to figure out.