History as an antidote to despair
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History as an antidote to despair
What shifts with tragic optimism is that all the usual repression, delusion, self-judgment, rumination, and despair get left behind.
“memory as an antidote to alienation,”
others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists.