Why Did Humans Once Need Hope? · R2049 · Residual Structures · Item 66

This reconstruction analyses hope as a compensatory future structure. Hope did not merely describe optimism; it stabilised continuity where outcomes could not be secured structurally. By later system conditions, this function dissolved as continuity no longer depended on expectation management. What disappeared was not anticipation, but the need to emotionally bridge uncertainty through hope.

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