The following is from a series of essays by Hiroshi Furuta entitled Theologian’s Intuition and the End of Ideology in WiLL, a monthly magazine now on sale.
This essay also proves that he is one of the best scholars in the postwar world.
hedonism and foresight　
In my previous article, “Encouragement of hedonism,” I wrote that there is no need for hope, but I forgot to add something important.
Since hedonism is a philosophy that says “it is good to take pleasure while considering gain and loss,” it first does “foresight” for gain and loss.
Hope is usually self-satisfying and ends up being a nuisance to others.
It goes against the hedonist virtue of “kindness.” It is why we go through the world with a more accurate foresight.　
There are two types of foresight: simple and difficult.
Simple foresight is like driving a car and immediately changing lanes when you see the word “poison” written on the truck in front of you.
For the difficult ones, there will come a time in the future when Hegel’s view of progress, Marx’s view of material history, and Freud’s asceticism will all come out of the barrel as fakes.
Some are so advanced that they suggest that we wait for the time to come by writing only positivist studies and essays for that time.　
I foresaw this because when I was 26 years old, I saw a crowd of unemployed people and an advertisement for a job agency in the back streets of Leningrad.
At that time, I saw the frame of this question as a “mutational system” where something would change in the future.
It is a matter of mastery, and if I didn’t see it that way, I would pass it by in a daze.　
However, behind this is the need for the philosophy of time theory, which says that time does not flow and is discontinuous and that it is my internal time flowing.
Without this, we cannot be sure of grasping the frame of time.
At the same time, I need to study the quantum theory of natural science to fill the waiting time.
There is also a bit more simple foresight. When I was on the verge of retirement, I watched my wife, who is eight years older than me, cook and foresaw that there would come a time in the future when I would have to cook too.
She looked like she was having a hard time cooking. But I couldn’t say anything about it. The housewife’s desire to occupy the kitchen is not half bad.
It is essential to create a causal story like this in advance. Connect the “mutational system frame” to that causal story.
The frame eventually arrives. “Oh, no,” said the wife. Now I can go into the kitchen. But it was not so easy.
She began to complain and lament, so I appeased her by saying, “You’ve already cooked enough for a lifetime,” but I didn’t know how to cook, so I asked the owner of my favorite small restaurant.
He answered me; It’s easy. Cooking is science, and the rest is sense. 
It made sense to me, so I decided to do science.
The first thing to do with raw fish is to tear open the belly with cooking scissors and remove the guts. Herbivorous fishes have a long intestine for digestion.
Tempura is done by osmosis. Eggs don’t need a chalaza. If you stir them with a stirrer, they disappear.
So now I can fry enough tempura for one person for three days in half an hour. My wife doesn’t say anything anymore. Sometimes she eats what I make.
Isn’t that much more practical than “hope”?
This article contionues.