Thread by @S_Mikhailovich

One major problem during systemic crises is conflation of concepts, language, statistics, etc. For example, "hope is not a strategy" actually describes hubris and blind optimism, not hope at all.
Real HOPE can be profoundly strategic. Consider the true, deeper meaning of "hope":

"Either we have hope within us or we do not.

It is a dimension of the soul and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world.

HOPE is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart." ...

"It transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.

HOPE in this deep and powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success,..."

"...but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed.

HOPE is definitely not the same thing as optimism..."

...It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." ...

"...It is HOPE, above all which gives the strength to live and continually try new things."

Vaclav Havel (writer, dissident, prisoner of conscience, President of Czechoslovakia & the Czech Republic, and, above all, a real leader.)

This kind of HOPE is definitely a strategy.