Fear isolates people, so collective fear is impossible. Fear does not create a community, a We. In fear, everyone is by him- or herself, in isolation. Hope, by contrast, contains a dimension of We. To hope means ‘to spread hope’, to carry the torch, ‘keeping its flame a radiance of hope burning around one’.18 Hope is the catalyst of revolution, the catalyst of the new: incipit vita nova [Here begins the new life]. There is no revolution through fear. The fearful submit to domination. Revolution can only come about through a hope for another, better world. Today, revolution is impossible
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