Lauren Berlant

So what's so great about inconvenience?

This is based on the philosopher Lauren Berlant's work.

And she wrote, I think I referred to it earlier, a book called, I think, The Inconvenience of Other People.

And it's the idea that to go into a relationship with anyone is a matter of inconvenience.

When we hope for something that's impossible, we can unintentionally support oppressive systems.

These critics often draw on the scholar Lauren Berlant, who developed the concept of cruel optimism.

One example of cruel optimism is the American dream where low paid workers with little job security buy into the promise that hard work results in wealth and success.

But the fact is our economic system is rigged and widening inequality shows that for the vast majority, class mobility is out of reach.

And only after she gave up hope did she pick up and leave.

He also cites the Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising once it became clear that they were doomed and had nothing left to lose.

Other scholars have looked at the common trait among psychopaths who control people they've abducted by giving them little glimmers of hope.

But when their victims lose hope, they're no longer controllable.