When Hope Imitates Hopelessness

One of the worst things to me about the way hope is so often framed is that it becomes just as much of an action-killer, as much a curiosity-killer, as the nihilism that those who push it so often rail against.

Why do you seem so desperate for us to do anything? Just have hope. (How is it different from 'why do anything, there is no hope')

Don't tell me bad news. You're trying to make me lose hope. (Not so different from 'why bother keeping up with the news when there's nothing to be done about any of it')

It serves no one to depend on a hope of platitudes, of ignorance and lies.