绝望时刻迫切的希望

M. Freeman
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考虑到世界的现状,对一些人来说,包括作者在内,有时很容易陷入绝望,包括认为世界正在无情地向下移动,甚至可能走向某种灾难性的终结。尽管绝望有时是诱人的,尽管希望有时看起来是无礼的,但正是在绝望的时刻,希望变得最迫切。屈服于绝望不仅是宿命论,而且是有问题的“安全”。希望建立在对未来的不确定性之上,显然风险更大。尽管完全拥抱希望可能很困难,但必须坚持下去,因为只有这样,才有可能持续下去。
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The urgency of hope in a time of despair
Given the state of the world, it is perilously easy—for some, including, at times, the author—to fall prey to despair, including the supposition that the world is moving inexorably downward, perhaps even toward some cataclysmic end. Alluring though despair may sometimes be, and impertinent though hope may sometimes seem, it is precisely in a time of despair that hope becomes most urgent. To succumb to despair is not only fatalistic but problematically “safe.” Hope, predicated as it is on uncertainty about the future, is decidedly more risky. Difficult though it may be to fully embrace hope, it is imperative to hold on to it, for only then can a sense of the possible be sustained.
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