Friedrich Nietzsche wrote “Hope is worst of all evils, because it prolongs mans torments”. Even though the topic of relevance, in this context is Love, I choose to start with Hope. In a few words the German writer has streamlined all the aspects of a profound word. On first reading it may seem as the most grotesque and uncanny way to explain the key and end of all philosophies and theories. But on further reading and contemplating about this particular sense of Hope, we find it hard to digest just because it is the ultimate truth said in plain words.
Hope is something that will linger around in the mind of mankind at all times. Like the hope for a better tomorrow, better life. Hope for a world with order against chaos. For no revolts, revolutionaries, terrorists, insurgency and war. The need for a content society. With no minority, interest groups, pressure groups. Apartheid will lose meaning. What a world would it be. Like Moore’s Utopia, or the New Atlantis. The creative mind of human has written many a great works on that world. Moreover the Indian philosophy of Vasudheava Kudumbakam is based on that Hope. The important question to be raised at this juncture is the possibility of such a world. If it could have happened, why hasn’t it? When will it? Mankind has no definite answer for that rhetorical question.
That is where the poet wins his thought, that Hope is just another weapon in the armory of man to fight his aggression, despair, greed. A potent way of escapism. The excruciating happiness which this hope gives mankind is so believable and intoxicating that humans subdue to them. And find or propagate that Hope is the logical exposition of a lot of problems. We all tend to forget the innate need of man for having more and more. There hasn’t been a time when man has ceased to crave for more. This mad race for the so called progress is what, that creates the need for more order. Which eventually perpetrates chaos. And chaos, hope.
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