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I liked the person who pointed out that people don't just "hope," they usually hope for or hope against something, and when you know what that thing is, you have a much clearer picture of their possible ideologies. Or "fight the good fight" -- what are you fighting for? What against? It's easy to say "fuck you buddy, this is the world I want to live in, where one atom of justice exists" but that's just basically grandiose rhetoric. It's directionless and non-specific and just kind of Homogenized Rebellion. Against what? For what? The most coherent position seems to be "the fight for the good never ends" vs. "there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you can kill the dragon, love wins" -- and to use THE LORD OF THE FREAKIN' RINGS as a supposed example of the former not the latter is really....anyway. (I love LOTR. But an example of "you never stop fighting, there is no nice, comfortable utopia at the end, evil cannot be vanquished only beaten back" it really truly is not.)