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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
conditions will make us happy and so we hope, but it is actually
the end of hope that ends the resistance that ends the seeming
itself that something is missing. Hopelessness is not bad news; on
the contrary it is very good news because in that moment we stop
pushing what we're after further away, like chasing a carrot on a
stick attached to our head".
WIZARD: Bravo, Brian.
TRIP: Well thank you, Brian.
WIZARD: Right on.
TRIP: Our current President got elected on the antithesis to that.
You must have been chuckling when you heard the tag line for the
Obama administration's campaign.
BRIAN ADLER: Yes, well I guess that's why this occurred to me,
because we think of hope as being a saving grace and it's sort of
like a wolf in sheep's clothing.
WIZARD: It's the mantra of doubt.
TRIP: That probably doesn't play very well with people [Laughs].
WIZARD: This is a seldom-touched subject.
TRIP: I mean, I just got off a pretty brutal chat with my girlfriend
on the phone as I was sitting in the parking lot there, and it wasn't
just about hope, but it's like having any idea that some future
rearrangement of circumstances is going to make you happier is
just going to keep you suffering, right?
BRIAN ADLER: Well the invisible thing is that like we think
there's a problem and it doesn't even occur to us to question that
fundamental assumption, we spend our whole lives just taking for
granted that our fundamental belief that things should be different
is true, and then we go about trying to make that happen, fulfill
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