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Hope!

2023-12-22 09:13:12Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA LEA YPI
Hope!
Leah Ypi

Most people think that Hope lies somewhere between a wish and a belief, between the desire for a satisfactory result and the belief in the realization of the wish. If desire and faith match, we have hope, otherwise not.

For me hope is something else. Having hope is not about how things turn out. Hope is a necessary complement to morality.

Why try to do what needs to be done if others don't behave the same? Why make others responsible if we think the responsibility is beyond their ability?

Hope is the opposite of nihilism. Paradoxically, the worse things get, the more hopeful we must remain to continue the fight. Being hopeful is not about guaranteeing the expected outcome, but about maintaining the right principle, the principle on which a moral world makes sense. In my case, to lose hope means to lose faith in that principle.

Thinking by putting yourself in everyone else's shoes is the principle of enlightened thinking. It is not as abstract as it seems, nor as individualistic, or tied to the temporary status quo.

Rather, it is crucial to filling the gap between the world we live in and the one we are responsible for building. When I was talking about this to the students, among the amazement, one of them said: Kant was lucky to live in the Enlightenment era, in his time people liked the Enlightenment.

Another pointed out that in the 18th century there were no algorithms and no social media. For this reason it was still possible to believe in the Enlightenment through public discourse.

A student, this time from the Balkans, said: "And what did the Enlightenment do for us if it didn't help us stop the genocide?" After these interventions, everything I had said up to that moment seemed ridiculous to me.

There was, therefore, a gap between the world of reading and the one in which I lived. According to social media and news, killing innocent civilians is sometimes, for some people, and under some conditions, unavoidable.

But can enlightenment and open-mindedness be trusted in the face of double moral standards? Is it not absurd to believe that politics can remain accountable to morality?

It wasn't the first time I had such thoughts in my head. I often reminded myself of the moral duty to hope. But it got stuck, it started to malfunction. I had apparently lost faith in reason, and my words had lost the power to make sense, even to myself.

To come to my senses, I tried, first, to remember my long-standing attitude towards the world, and how my existential despair, my philosophical dilemmas and my constant questions, ultimately constituted a privilege.

People who suffer injustice, who face daily insults to their dignity, who are oppressed, silenced, exploited, left to die or killed, have not stopped to ask themselves whether or not they have hope. They cling to life, try to cope, work, tire, sacrifice.

Amidst their constant efforts, of whatever form, there is no room for loss of faith.

In these circumstances, the least the rest of us can do is avoid questioning our reasons for hope. This is the meaning of enlightenment. There is hope, right? That is a question for the happy few who have the privilege of doubting.


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