Arendt wrote, “In hope the soul overleaps reality, as in fear it shrinks back from it.” But more surprisingly she wrote, “anger reveals and exposes the world”. There was anger, but it was an anger born of hope and high expectations. But fear does not only shrink back from the world, it literally tries to shrink it. In the last decade we gave in to both unfounded hope, and then unbounded fear. Will this be the decade where we finally come to terms with our reality, we find the will not to be deceived?

Source: Indian Express December 31, 2019 21:19 UTC