I would say it’s a post-jaded reformation era.

Where you’re trying to will positive change for the sake of it. Potential fruitlessness of the effort be damned, I am willing my hope into this world

At last, my grant from the foreign feline office! Now we can finally score some premo quality catnip and catch that dastardly bastard (who's presumably responsible for all this) known only as my nemesis.