The Dialectic of Pain and Hope

Hope on the one hand is an absurdity too embarrassing to speak about for it flies in the face of all those who claim we have been told our facts. On the other hand, hope is subversive for it limits the grandiose pretension to the present daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question. In this world of quote unquote fake news and dealing with these false realities in social media, how do we purify our hope? Well, you have to decide which story is true. Then the best we can hope for is to maintain the status quo. And I believe that the history of the hopers through human history are people who have