Waiting for universal peace to justify one’s existence is a permanent deferral

Evidence

But the truth is that if division and violence define war, the world has always been at war and always will be; if man is waiting for universal peace in order to establish his existence validly, he will wait indefinitely: there will never be any other future. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 116

Categorization

Category: Inspiration and Speculation

• QUESTION: The claim ‘there will never be any other future’ seems to cut against the immediately preceding sense of ‘future’ as lived transcendence; worth pressing whether Beauvoir equivocates on the two senses.
• APHORISMS: A genuinely life-guiding line: do not postpone the validity of your existence onto a peace that never arrives.