So is your point that people must "abandon all hope ye who enter here" or is it that you worry people who have hope just sit around waiting and not GALing. Cause I have hope, but I'm also a realist. I also see it as one of those rare opportunities reinvent the parts of me I see as flawed.
THE STOCKDALE PARADOX
“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”