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Response to AnneD (Reply #78)

Tue Apr 10, 2012, 09:27 AM

79. No, not hopelessness

I consider hopelessness to be the end of the road, the point of giving up, of not doing anything at all about anything at all.

The kind of futility I'm talking about is the not doing anything active to effect change or improvement or whatever. Along the lines of "Why bother to vote if the other guy is going to win and/or there's no difference between the two?" I don't consider that hopelessness so much as acquiescence to specific circumstances or conditions.

Don't even get me started on the O man's disappoints.

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