February 17, 2002

  • Hope Is For Suckers

    No, really, it is. I give up. I hereby officially state that Pandora was right to lock hope away in her jar (or box, depending on which version you’ve heard). It was no accident. She saw that hope is the most potent and awful of all human states, and tried to protect us. Evil and malice and horror she let escape, because compared to hope, they’re just kid stuff.

    Evil and malice and horror you deal with. You see something, it’s horrible, you deal. Beauty and truth are the same way. You deal with it. It’s there, it’s in front of you.

    Hope is a mugger around a corner. May be there, may not. You can only deal by preparing for the worst, or the best. Either way you don’t know, and you’re probably wrong. You can hope you’re not wrong, but then you’ve got hopes built on hopes.

    As a strategy, hope just plain sucks. It’s like getting stoned before your oral exams for your PhD. You need clarity, but there’s none to be found.

    You may be asking yourself, “Geez, why is Homer always shitting on hope?” And the answer is simple: Hope shits on me all the time.

Comments (11)

  • you have really, really big loves. i think you’re going to hope for the right thing one day and you’re going to act in accordance with that hope…but in the meantime, you have really big loves…

    i think it would suck if you shit on that love because it can’t touch you where you want to be touched.

    i’m going mountain climbing.

    V~

  • Hope, that feathered thing that craps on your windshield…

  • maggy feels kinda sad after reading this… hope hmmmm you musdt admitt it’s a nice concept… but it doesn’t work for everyone… have you tried the consolation of pessimism yet… works for me it goes like this if you always expect the worst to happen things will turn out better then you think  most of the time… big hug

  • I’m not always sure what hope is, seems to come and go from my head. I think I’ll give up on hope too.

  • People really aught to stop naming their kids that…

  • Like Maggy, I’m a closet pessimist. While I still live with small amounts of HOPE, I’m not stupid, either. My best survival technique is to hope for the worst – I’m almost always pleasantly surprised at the slightly more positive outcome. The fact that I am still ALIVE is a miracle in itself, so the “worst” has been far surpassed, and that, in itself, gives me small doses of “hope”.

  • Hope is like gravity.
    It sucks.

    Wanna go shoot some pool?

  • Pessimism is no consolation. (How’s that for a pessimistic answer?)

    Puul sounds like a good idea.

  • Pessimism being no consolation to you is certainly not pessimistic in and of itself. But it’s possibility to avoid FUTURE mis-hopes may be misleading.

    Life and experiences are all about perspective. Hope is relative to that perspective.

  • Homer.  Dood.  Hope, like freedom, is an imaginary human construct, designed as a coping tool for an overstimulated fight/flight response.  Hope presumes choice (or does it presume no-choice?) in matters that trigger our most-imprinted neural pathways into hyperactivity in the face of potential repetition of a previously-experienced sampling of reward or punishment.

    Love, however, is hard chemical/energetic reality, and it will win over hope any day.  Regradless of whether you want it to.

    But chocolate helps.  AND POOL.

  • practical example when we get our bonusses I’m ussually the only one who is all smiles because thanx to my very pessimistic calculations I always get more the the people who just hoped but truly it works  for me ebing pessimistic about certin things can make one really happy in the end

    BUT pool sounds fun to me… maybe an online pool game on yahoo one day?

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