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npub1xz…v7kvt on Nostr: nprofile1q…vr5mx > Much depends on how one defines and understands what hope is, it ...



> Much depends on how one defines and understands what hope is, it seems to me.

As I said: The hope that everything will blow over, that it doesn't take collectively rising up, that the few who seriously put the lives they have on the line, that all this will be enough. That one can avoid the all-out conflict with Trump's goons or with the neighbors who voted for him.

This is what keeps people from rising up: Their desire to avoid conflict, to get along with their neighbors, their bosses, the system. The desire for a bit of piece.

And unfortunately it hands an advantage to the goons, who don't mind the conflict, the violence, physically or psychologically.

(Not by accident this is the same mechanism which so often prevents beaten spouses with their partners)