Is it normal to hate cynics?

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If babies drank cheap beer, watched "satires," and had know-it-all jerk-off attitudes, they'd be cynics. Cynicism is such a lame position, considering that it gets nothing done, is passe (you see it everywhere), and its adherents seem to think that the snarkier a proposition is, the more accurate. Let's not try and devise a solution to anything, let's just make snarky statements, role our eyes, and read David F. Wallace while taking Emma Goldman out of context.

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  • anti-hero
    9 years ago | pl

    You seem cynical anout cynics.

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    • dynamohumm
      9 years ago

      You took the words out of my mouth :)

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      • anti-hero
        9 years ago

        Welcome to IIN we have a lot of bright bulbs here ;)

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        • dynamohumm
          9 years ago

          Yeah I have seen that. Been a long time lurker and thought I would enjoy actually enjoy participating in the topics at hand. I have to say that you are one of my favourite users on this site. :)

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          • anti-hero
            9 years ago

            Hahaha thanks :)

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  • disthing
    9 years ago

    Cynicism as a predisposition is lame.

    However, everybody is cynical to some extent about certain things. For example, I'm cynical about advertising and marketing campaigns which seek to pull on the heart strings of consumers.

    I'm cynical about manufactured pop bands, and the mainstream music industry in general.

    I'm cynical about certain politicians, certain parties, certain governments etc.

    Cynicism is often a response to a bad experience - confidence being broken or the realisation that what you thought was true was a lie. In this regard, being a cynic in certain situations is being rational; it's learning from history, and trying to avoid being a victim of naivety or gullibility.

    When it becomes so much a part of someone's attitude that they can be described as an overall cynic, though, I understand that hate you feel. I expect they feel it too, in fact - being a cynic through-and-through makes life a pretty joyless existence, but some people just can't shake that negative attitude.

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    • disthing
      9 years ago

      However, judging by what you're saying, OP, it sounds to me like what you actually hate isn't cynicism or cynics - it's people PRETENDING to be cynical because they think it's cool not to display positivity and passion about anything.

      You hate pretentiousness.

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      • Pseodonihm
        9 years ago

        Thank you disthing. You have done what I was going to do. That is, point out the true question.

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  • flailyhailey
    9 years ago

    LOL! I love that description. Perfect. I love this question.

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  • daydreamer394
    9 years ago

    I completely agree with you ... and I am a cynic!

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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago

    If it is so passe, why do you see it everywhere?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      Cynicism is one of those things that ceases to be cool the minute the mainstream appropriates it (it's very adherents should indicate that this is hypocritical). Though the milk's passed its expiration date, cowards are still sucking at the teat.

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