I would like to point out that the future, as far as we can tell, is unpleasant. If our message is “decide hope,” we fail. I like, “make some changes.”
Sure hope provides comfort. But that’s an illusion. There is no real comfort unless everyone is helping. That’s the reality. If you’re busy hoping, I “hope” you’re busy helping too. Otherwise, your hope only helps you. And I don’t care.
Hope vs Help
I’m trying to help out here in the world with music online and education locally. I don’t have to “hope” anything. I’m doing it, maybe I hope I feel like doing it tomorrow. But that’s about the extent of hopes over here.
To put it bluntly, we’re fucked. It isn’t even one thing that got us here, but a timely convergence of horrible factors, including false hope.
Historically Speaking..
Many folks say history repeats itself. This is simply a way of trying to maintain hope and some semblance of knowledge. The nazis in WW2 didn’t have internet. They didn’t have X. This isn’t the same, it’s a consequence. No reason correlates now with the fall of Rome except possibly human nature. That’s not history repeating, that’s humans not changing. Big difference. History is not a seer into the future. It is a look at our nature over time.
Hopefully Wealthy.
Hopeful folks often have a lot of money. This is because they’re going to still be able to afford bribes and healthcare. The majority of us aren’t even going to have food.
Sorry if that doesn’t sound hopeful, I’m not into that. Hoping things work out is an awful lot like thoughts and prayers. It’s an assault on reason. When someone says to me they have hope, it’s as if they’ve checked out or never watched the news before.
Hope is not Surviving.
Decide to help, not hope. This is an “all hands on deck” situation. If you’re just hoping, you ain’t helping. Maybe if you weren’t so busy hoping, you’d realize help was needed.
Some folks say you need hope to survive. I do not know where this comes from. It is anti-survival. As a survivor myself, hope had nothing to do with what the kid I was did to avoid harm. It was things like tactics, anticipating, and evasion. No time for hope, that likely would have gotten me killed. I was in danger, and acted accordingly. I can tell because I made it. No hope was involved.
When I was in the Navy, we didn’t have “Hope” classes. We got to feel “No Hope” situations several times. I went on to learn that when you fire a weapon, you’re not actually hoping it hits the mark. You’re knowing it, if you’re doing it correctly. A lot of folks who don’t know this wind up on the news and in the obituaries. “Hope” is not a concept conducive to war.
Hope vs Morale
Maybe you want to “Rally the Troops” with hopeful messaging. I get the feeling sometimes like, “come on guys!” I find english helps me here. See, “morale” and “hope” are different things. Raise the morale with a coach’s speech if you want. If you have ever heard a coach give a speech, (or a petty officer), they aren’t loaded with hope to boost morale. They’re loaded with a recap. “All we have been through to be here at this one moment. Now is the time to decide. We go out there and do what we came to do.” That’s not hope. It’s mostly facts. (You’re welcome, if you needed the breakdown of every half-time speech.)
Get Real.
Hope is deciding things will be okay. That’s a bad decision right now. It doesn’t ring true, and it takes you out of the game. “All we have been through to be here at this moment..” haha.
Return to home.
Today I am leaving a link here for the search, “Unhealthy Hope.“
There’s plenty of folks smarter than me who pop up talking about it. Have a good day.