and also both cynicism and pessimism have been inculcated in us because they encourage passive consumption 
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oh this is the other usage of cynicism that i'm mad about though (this one being at least a degenerate case of validity)
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the posture that everybody's motives are shit so one may as well not even try, or act with the worst motives oneself
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you can get there through self-indulgent Holden-Caulfield-esque cynical analysis sure but it's not at all required
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my claim is that questioning people's motives, including one's own, is essential for understanding and improving them
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and that's what the noble tradition of philosophical cynicism really stands for, despite the tarnishing of its name
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in its absence the idea that we should just believe really hard in the right things and right people visibly flourishes
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and it's really hard to overstate how ripe for abuse that posture is
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