Keeping you clinging to hope keeps you blind, obedient, pacified, submissive, and therefore controlled. You're not a threat, because you're still optimistic and hopeful that things will magically change if you just keep your head down, play by the rules, and grin and bear it, no matter what they burden you with.
It's only when hope is lost that you're finally free of that delusion, and you can find the clarity to realize that playing by their rules is how they maintain control. Nothing will change unless you drag it kicking and screaming by its hair, after you've beat it to a bloody pulp enough to take the fight out of it.
This is basically how our own revolution played out. The Founders tried and tried to play the Crown's game, they tried and tried to remain hopeful that surely sooner or later things would get better. It's only when they realized all that was bullshit, and the only way forward was through blood and mud that anything changed. They had to drag much of the country kicking and screaming, too.
The truth is, hope is just an excuse to avoid the dirty, ugly work of what's necessary. Because that's the hard part, and that requires legitimate risk. It's much easier to sit comfortable, and passive, and hope things get better. And all the while you're slowly conditioned to tolerate more abuse and tyranny, and before you know it, you scarcely recognize anything any more, because you've sat by with your hope and let everything go to shit.
It takes nothing to hope. It's easy to hope. Letting go of that delusional hope is the hard part.
Part of the game is trying to get you to give up hope.
Don't be a part of that. It's bullshit.
This seems like bullshit to me.
Keeping you clinging to hope keeps you blind, obedient, pacified, submissive, and therefore controlled. You're not a threat, because you're still optimistic and hopeful that things will magically change if you just keep your head down, play by the rules, and grin and bear it, no matter what they burden you with.
It's only when hope is lost that you're finally free of that delusion, and you can find the clarity to realize that playing by their rules is how they maintain control. Nothing will change unless you drag it kicking and screaming by its hair, after you've beat it to a bloody pulp enough to take the fight out of it.
This is basically how our own revolution played out. The Founders tried and tried to play the Crown's game, they tried and tried to remain hopeful that surely sooner or later things would get better. It's only when they realized all that was bullshit, and the only way forward was through blood and mud that anything changed. They had to drag much of the country kicking and screaming, too.
The truth is, hope is just an excuse to avoid the dirty, ugly work of what's necessary. Because that's the hard part, and that requires legitimate risk. It's much easier to sit comfortable, and passive, and hope things get better. And all the while you're slowly conditioned to tolerate more abuse and tyranny, and before you know it, you scarcely recognize anything any more, because you've sat by with your hope and let everything go to shit.
It takes nothing to hope. It's easy to hope. Letting go of that delusional hope is the hard part.
1000% well said