The Importance of Hope

These days, if we turn our minds to something like removing bitterness and visible harms, we generally do a great job of fixing them. But it's always possible that in our focus on the clear and immediate harms, we have missed the cyanide still lurking in the heart of the Manioc. That the traditions, taboos, and religions of those who preceded us contained unrecognized wisdom. Wisdom we have overlooked in our diagnosis of the world's ills. And it's only now that our true disease emerges and our chronic poisoning makes itself felt. Are we then without hope? For those with faith, there is always hope.