One can also argue, that without hope, there is no revolution and
change or any human creativity indeed.
History demonstrates that the true
human form of existance is active participation and
more and more involvement in manipulating the more and
more recorded data about the physical and social environment.
Inactivity and apathy is a malfunction of a human strata
due to a far from optimum function of society.
Eva
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> The Hope That Kills
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> "Despite the madness of war, we lived for a world that would be different.
> For a better world to come when all this is over. And perhaps even our being
> here is a step towards that world. Do you really think that, without the
> hope that such a world is possible, that the rights of man will be restored
> again, we could stand the concentration camp even for one day? It is that
> very hope that makes people go without a murmur to the gas
> chambers, keeps them from risking a revolt, paralyses them into numb
> inactivity. It is hope that breaks down family ties, makes mothers renounce
> their children, or wives sell their bodies for bread, or husbands kill. It
> is hope that compels man to hold on to one more day of life, because that
> day may be the day of liberation. Ah, and not even the hope for a different,
> better world, but simply for life, a life of peace and rest. Never
> before in the history of mankind has hope been stronger than man, but never
> also has it done so much harm as it has in this war, in this concentration
> camp. We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we
> perish in gas chambers."
> --Borowski, pp. 121-122
> http://spectacle.org/695/hope.html
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