Well, I am sorry to say so, but Nietzche was dead wrong.

Hope instead of facing bad situations is madness, but that is not what Obama is offering. Facing the present without hope is just apathetic materialism at its worst.

It is not hope that prolongs the torments of the human condition; hope is the only thing that has led us out of the pathos of filth, hunger, danger and oppression in countless scenarios.

So in that respect, I have to offer the notion that Nietzche was nuts in this respect.


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