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Hope is for Suckers Mickey Z. We can’t give up hope, I’m often told. Keep hope alive, the saying goes. If we lose hope, nothing will ever change…or so they believe. Well, I’m here to say: Fuck hope.
We live on a planet brimming with hope yet that same planet is under perpetual assault…and the hopers are losing.
“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The corporations raping our eco-systems don’t hope they can steal
more land, exploit it, poison it, and make boatloads of cash. They make
a plan and make it happen…damn the torpedoes. (You might even call it
“direct action.”)
Monsanto doesn’t put its faith in candlelight
vigils or humans standing in the shape of a peace sign. They get busy
putting their people into positions of power, writing legislation, and
bullying and smashing anyone opposed to their insane agenda.
General
Motors doesn’t reserve its opinions for government sanctioned “free
speech zones.” The television, Internet, magazines, movies, songs,
radio, etc. are all inundated with GM’s taxpayer-subsidized
propaganda…just as the planet is inundated with GM’s output.
McDonald’s
doesn’t waste time hoping things will go its way when its days are
chock filled with brainwashing, killing, poisoning, destroying…and
counting its profits. Hope never enters into the equation.
“Hope
is a bad thing,” sez Henry Miller. “It means that you are not what you
want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It
means that you entertain illusions. It’s a sort of spiritual clap, I
should say.”
Author Derrick Jensen explains the impotency of
hope as good as anyone:
“I’m not, for example, going to say I hope I
eat something tomorrow. I just will. I don’t hope I take another breath
right now, nor that I finish writing this sentence. I just do them. On
the other hand, I do hope that the next time I get on a plane, it
doesn’t crash.
"To hope for some result means you have given up any
agency concerning it. Many people say they hope the dominant culture
stops destroying the world. By saying that, they’ve assumed that the
destruction will continue, at least in the short term, and they’ve
stepped away from their own ability to participate in stopping it.”
If
Jensen makes it sound an awful lot like religion, well, for most folks,
the verb “hope” is virtually synonymous with “pray,” while “hope” the
noun is often interchangeable with “faith.”
Hope is for suckers.
How
about some good old-fashioned anger, rage, and passion? (Che sez: "If
you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade
of mine.")
Let’s forget hope and aim for vision, clarity, strategy,
courage, and finally: some goddamned results. “Creativity comes from
trust,” sez Rita Mae Brown. “Trust your instincts. And never hope more
than you work” (as they say in South Florida: bingo).
At its
worst, hope is a dangerous cop-out. At best, it’s a frivolous idea. But
even so, as Henry Miller sez: “Ideas have to be wedded to action.”
Wedded, huh? Repeat after me: “I do.”
Mickey
Z. is the author of the forthcoming novel, CPR for Dummies (Raw Dog
Screaming Press) and can be found on the Web at http://www.mickeyz.net.
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