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Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #178 - Do you have hope? : The Red Hand Files

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Dear Anna, Raymond and Greg, Hope and optimism can be different, almost opposing, forces. Hope rises out of known suffering and is the...

Issue #178 / December 2021 ANNA, HAMBURG, GERMANY Dear Anna, Raymond and Greg, Hope and optimism can be different, almost opposing, forces. Hope rises out of known suffering and is the defiant and dissenting spark that refuses to be extinguished. Optimism, on the other hand, can be the denial of that suffering, a fear of facing the darkness, a lack of awareness, a kind of blindness to the actual. Hope is wised-up and disobedient. Optimism can be fearful and false. However, there exists another form of optimism, a kind of radical optimism. This optimism has experienced the suffering of the…

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