1012. Cynicism can be manipulated, or manufactured. A sheltered mind can be trained to be jaded, worldly beyond its personal experiences, knowledgeable beyond its individual understanding, when it has nothing to draw from but these shallow references that are no more than words, repeated and then given a positive or negative tint. This is where cynicism becomes a social tool. It can be turned into a dismissal of all rejections of manmade ideals; a way to degrade an attitude that remains sceptical when dealing with human contrivances. How useful a tool would it be to a Christian or a secular humanist, or a Marxist, to degrade cynicism as hyperbole and psychological baggage? Take an ignorant, dullard, feed him words upon words, to the point where repetition begins to substitute understanding, and then connect these words with unsubstantiated fears, it cannot justify. Now, the cynic who draws from personal experiences and an understanding of life, and of human constructs, is one and the same as that adolescent turd who has heard the words, perhaps he has watched a few movies or listened to a few tunes referring to the words, perhaps he has read a few books mentioning the words regarding the concepts, but has no clue about them except that they connect to some social ideal or some “obsolete” idea, long forgotten because it has been “debunked.”
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:22:12 +0000
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