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What’s the Use of Hope?
hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
To hope is to gamble.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Jensen puts it, but by saying that, “they’ve assumed the destruction will continue, at least in the short term, and they’ve stepped away from their own ability to participate in stopping it.” To give up hope, by contrast, is to reinhabit the power that you actually have. At that point, Jensen goes on, “we no longer have to ‘hope’ at all. We simply
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