exhortations to reject cynicism and embrace hope & trust are mostly not from monsters who want to burn your hope & trust like cordwood to build their power base they're from extremely nice people whose hope & trust are being burned like cordwood to build monsters' power base
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i mean, i can see how people can confuse the cynic who says "that leader figure is a posturing liar" and the pessimist who says "nothing will ever get better" because they're both being ~negative~ in the febrile pop-psych usage but it's an extremely hazardous confusion
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This is complex, but not about 'negativity'. Cynicism is a philosophy that necessarily reinforces the prior that _leaders must be posturing liars_, which is often 1.) not practical knowledge and 2.) paralyzing.
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