#Ambiguity

Hope as Path: Roads Made by Walking

Finally, Lu Xun’s image also warns against two extremes. Illusion says the road already exists; despair says no road can exist. Václav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless (1978) reframes hope as fidelity to meaningful action rather than optimism about outcomes. Likewise, Camus’s Sisyphus finds dignity in the task itself. Thus, hope becomes an ethic of construction: neither a fantasy nor a void, but the steady making of paths that others may one day walk. [...]