The role of 'hope; in this time of PLAGUE

 iNietzsche’s discussion of Pandora’s Box in Human, All Too Human: points to all the evils of humankind, including plagues and disease, have been let loose on the world by Zeus/god, but the remaining evil, hope, is kept hidden away in the box and treasured.

 But why, we may ask, is hope an evil? Nietzsche explains that humans have come to see hope as their greatest good, while Zeus, knowing better, has meant it as the greatest source of trouble. It is, after all, the reason why humans let themselves be tormented—because they anticipate an ultimate reward.

Between this sky and the faces turned toward it there is nothing on which to hang a mythology of hope, that has spawned a literature, an ethic, or a religion— for there are only stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch”  This insight of Nietzsche entails obstinately rubbishes “all the ‘later on’s of this world,” 

Thank ZEus VACCINES ARE ON THE WAY

but before beatifying SCEINCE we might accomidate the view that science has its provincial tendencies.