Sincerity in the age of cynicism
This generation of young adults was born into cynicism. We were raised on irony and grew up with our tongues in our cheeks. We made shrewd comments on the world around us through witty remarks told in monotone voices, the only tone of voice that would adequately convey our detachment and fatigue. We're tired of bullshit. Authority figures mewling and spitting at each other just mirror the way we speak on ground level. We're overwhelmed with double entendres and subtext and illusions, all the fucking illusions. Having been so thoroughly alienated with the rise of the virtual and the digital and the clinical, we feel alone in what everyone else calls a universal, interconnected world. We know that's not true. We're all just alone together.
But history moves through tidal waves of reaction, and I propose we react with Sincerity. I mean shit, we're all dying, and we can spend the intermission between birth and death by crossing our legs and clenching our fists and muttering our spiteful deadpan wisdom or we can actually strive for perfection. Can't we just walk towards the ideal? Smiling at the monstrous future takes courage, so I say we prove to everyone that the world is not lost on our hands. I think we should fight as the zeitgeist of Sincerity. What do you think?
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