I agree that the world needs more cynicism, and it could do with a lot more apathy, as well. Do-gooders who think they know what's best for everybody and pursue their idiotic schemes with enthusiasm have caused way more than their share of historic calamities.I'd like to get a political movement going, but I can't get anybody excited about it, and it probably wouldn't do any good.
I definitely resist doing anything that might be considered trendy. I tell everybody that I'm expressing my individuality by not having a tattoo since everyone and his mother seems to have several now.
I have several piercings, sadly the belly bar had to go with my first pregnancy and always fancied a small discreet tattoo. But now it would just make me the same as everyone else. The most unlikely people have a tat somewhere on their person.
I have always been called a cynic, though I prefer realist. My wife calls me a curmudgeon, though she means the archaic definition.
As you point out, the cynic/realist is not a pessimist; if the optimist sees the glass half full and the pessimist sees it as half empty, the cynic remarks, "It depends on whether you're drinking or pouring."
I agree that the world needs more cynicism, and it could do with a lot more apathy, as well. Do-gooders who think they know what's best for everybody and pursue their idiotic schemes with enthusiasm have caused way more than their share of historic calamities.I'd like to get a political movement going, but I can't get anybody excited about it, and it probably wouldn't do any good.
Hahahaha. I'd join, but cannot for the same reasons as yourself.
Absolutely. As T.S. Eliot put it: "Half the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel good about themselves."
The current status quo is fertile breeding ground for a whole generation of cynics, I am raising two and consider that something of a success 🤣
I definitely resist doing anything that might be considered trendy. I tell everybody that I'm expressing my individuality by not having a tattoo since everyone and his mother seems to have several now.
I have several piercings, sadly the belly bar had to go with my first pregnancy and always fancied a small discreet tattoo. But now it would just make me the same as everyone else. The most unlikely people have a tat somewhere on their person.
I have always been called a cynic, though I prefer realist. My wife calls me a curmudgeon, though she means the archaic definition.
As you point out, the cynic/realist is not a pessimist; if the optimist sees the glass half full and the pessimist sees it as half empty, the cynic remarks, "It depends on whether you're drinking or pouring."
I love that.
A friend told me to watch The Holdovers. "There's this curmudgeon. He reminds me of you."
The guy was a 60-something drunk, but okay. I'll take it.