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>I'm well aware that despair is the product of unrealized hopes.
Then, ultimately speaking, you ARE a hopefag too. I only said that you're "praising despair", mainly because it sounds better than a "despairfag".
Thus, why do you want hopefags to kill each other, which will include you and Junko? That smug smile on the face, whether it is preserved at the prospect of murder in case that the chaos event she hopes for really happens, will not change the fact that, ultimately, people will restore order anyway.
There isn't a true chaos, and the "chaos" we know of even has rules, absurd it might sound. (New discoveries only seem chaotic because we have yet to figure out the rules and how they work, actually. Once we do, it ain't chaos anymore, obviously.) Because there is the physical world, and might it be that our minds and bodies can be fragile and has limits, it doesn't mean that the physical world does not exist. It doesn't matter if someone with a hallucination saw a Hoplite hit his head with a French bread until it bleeds, the point is that there is a physical attacker and and he just got bludgeoned with blunt and long object. There isn't, you might say? Then there's something wrong with the physical brain. In the skull.
>For me, hope is a person's idealized version of the future.
That is not "hope", that's "ideals". And even embracing "the wheel of fate", as you seem to aim for, is an ideal. It's hope that accepting it will not make you suffer any longer, the contradictory and seemingly absurd nature of human life will not emotionally hurt you or disappoint you anymore.
Point is, yeah, yeah, I've heard about how life is absurd or meaningless long ago. But your philosophy of striving to not strive much only can apply in a philosophical sense. You should know the reason already it does: Everything has physical limitations. But to say that "hoping", by your definition, can only lead to "despair", doesn't take factor into two things:
First, who the fuck said that life is supposed to have an initial assigned meaning into it, and why should people fall to sadness that it is meaningless?! If anything else, I take as a sign that people are free to do whatever they want to aim for. Nobody needs to live, and the universe doesn't need to exist, neither there is a need for existence. But goddamn me if I don't want to live, goddamn me if people aren't afraid of the ultimate fate of the universe, and damn it if we don't treasure existence, in some way or another. Sure, humanity, life and the universe will end in the indeterminate future, but even the Universe itself started out as a Void. Nothing. Then here we go again, things will exist. That's hope right there.
Second, it's better to chase some ideal you know is unreachable at it's fullest, as long as you aren't being a morally destructive. People who reached the top keep saying that they got everything they wanted, and they still aren't happy. I'd say it's nonsense: They either aren't enjoying it enough, or it's about time for them to shift into another aim or goal. There's nothing wrong with trying to get a new goal once you got the one you wanted. And if you haven't yet, at least someone should appreciate more the things they have… as there's always something better. And even if we die, and we would, well… Historical figures in the past only achieved the extent of the greatness because they strived, not giving a damn about how they're gonna die anyway.