This Music May Contain Hope (RAYE): This daringly cross-genre album feels like a modern soundtrack to the IGC.261 Songs like I Know You’re Hurting seem to sing directly about The Sufferer’s Power (p. 71), and its lyric about how we’re all looking for healing shows our Will-to-Repair as an instinct so primal it can bring stadiums of adults to tears when sung. It captures this core IGC idea more elegantly in nine words than this book does in over 200 pages. Click Clack Symphony shows the defiant act of moving against the crushing depths of anomie, arm-in-arm with your friends: an audible march toward self-mastery. Even the album’s title captures meliorism: the cautious optimism this book argues is woven into the fabric of existence itself. Not blind hope, but the refusal to stop reaching for something better.
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