PSA: training you that "cynicism" means "pessimism" is a tool that smarmy manipulative fucks use to invalidate questioning their motivespic.twitter.com/vi1LfDZiWS
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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also: collapsing the distinction between critical analysis and censorship. failure of systems-level thinking
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yeah absolutely, the idea that questioning something is the same as condemning it is part and parcel of that usage
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