Amdir, Estel, Peter Thiel
In dark times such as these, those of us who wish to see a better, more just world speak a lot of hope. The word in English, however, is badly overloaded: we mean a lot of different things when we say "hope". We can hope that it's sunny outside, hope that our business venture succeeds, hope that we recover from a serious illness or home that the world that we live in is fundamentally good or for our benefit, despite all of the pain that we see. We can hope that a long project we've been working on will pay off, even if we don't live to see it, and we can hope that people who've been behaving cruelly will somehow see the light and repent of their wicked ways. All of these are very different kinds of hope, and when we speak of hope in our current context, it's easy to get muddled and cause pain. Where one person might speak of a metaphysical kind of hope that this will all turn to the good eventually, another might read that it's the kind of hope that comes from believing that the thing is actually likely to happen and get offended because they can't see a plausible path for it to occur. And so, when we most need to be able to foster many of these different kinds of hope, we instead fall into mutual recriminations and despair.
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