Prisoners of Hope

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Hope is a wonderful thing. How can we live with sanity in this seemingly crazy and inexplicable world without hope? More than ever, hope seems an absolute necessity. Considering all the advertisements for antidepressants, we cannot avoid thinking that if we lose all hope then serious depression may await us, with only an expensive prescription medicine to save us. Add overeating to a hopeless existence and killer obesity awaits us.

In so many ways, hope is constantly being sold to us. Endless advertisements for products solving our eating, mental and sexual problems offer us hope if only we will spend our money on them. Hope is for sale everywhere.

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Prisoners of Hope by Joel Hirschhorn