@antanicus @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I don't get it.

Smells like cynicism, dressed up to try to look clever.

#CynicismIsNotCool #CynicismIsLazy #Cynicism

Listening to an amazing interview with Rebecca Solnit about #hope despite the #wildfires and #ClimateCrisis on this week's episode of What on Earth #podcast. Love that she reached out to #LauraLynch herself to inject this conversation topic into the #climate space, because it is SO needed.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429/clip/16002986

Esp like the talk about hope vs #doomerism vs #optimism #pessimism and #cynicism. As theorist Mary Manjikian reminds us, #dread is a luxury emotion...

#Vulgar #cynicism:
- true is what works, end justifies means
- ethical concerns are for 'snow flakes
- ok, as long as it hits some target
- don't think, reply immediately
- hiding, masking, falsifying, evading, distracting, over-shouting
- secret language, slang, only for insiders: metaphors, signal words and stereotypes

Talking on two different levels: saying you want to protect #children from anonymous creeps and at the same time enabling 12-year-olds to #work in the factory ten hours a day.

Dance with cynicism, but don’t let it consume you. Distancing and timing are everything.
#DancingWithCynicism #cynicism #dancing

Running away from love.

“Tragic is facing love and not recognizing it, unconsciously suppressing reciprocity. “All You Need Is Love”, The Beatles sang. Not quite. When the reproductive organs do the “thinking” all one needs is lovers. Like alcohol or money, it is prone to addiction, beyond distracting, destructive, and eventually leads to sadness.”

https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/philophobia.html #love #infatuation #polyamory #sex #philosophy #Cynicism #stoicism

> When presidents such as #BillClinton, #BarackObama, #DonaldTrump, and #JoeBiden nominate individuals who clearly lack integrity, it creates #cynicism at the very institutions these individuals are asked to lead. This was certainly true at the #CIA in the cases of Woolsey, Gates, and #GinaHaspel, and it will be true at a less well-known institution such as the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/21/the-strange-rehabilitation-of-elliott-abrams/
#EIliotAbrams #USApresidents #PublicDiplomacy #BidenAdministration

The illusion of moral decline https://www.ethicalpsychology.com/2023/07/the-illusion-of-moral-decline.html #NegativityBias #Cynicism #Morality #Beliefs #apathy

A quotation from Clark, Kenneth:

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It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilization. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/clark-kenneth/55630/

#quote #quotes #quotation #civilization #confidence #cynicism #disbelief #disillusionment #society

A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

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The world either breaks or hardens the heart.
[En vivant et en voyant les hommes, il faut que le cœur se briese ou se bronze.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/35815/

#quote #quotes #quotation #cynicism #existence #hard-hearted #harden #heart #heartbreak #humanity #life #meme #world

A quotation from Emerson, Ralph Waldo:

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I confess I am a little cynical on some topics, and when a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/4779/

#quote #quotes #quotation #cynicism #distraction #hypocrisy #meme #nationalism #patriotism #truth

A quotation from Emerson, Ralph Waldo:

«««««
I confess I am a little cynical on some topics, and when a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/4779/

#quote #quotes #quotation #cynicism #distraction #hypocrisy #nationalism #patriotism #truth

A convincer's job is to persuade pizza-eaters to go for the burger instead.

https://doctorow.medium.com/pizzaburgers-8cfc62ee4aee

#NothingBurgers #Centrism #Cynicism #NoLabels

@CWMO

Das liegt vielleicht daran, dass es keine internationale Umfrage auf Englisch war.

Sonst hätte #Cynicism sich angeboten.

#Zynisch wie die #CDU!

Wer glaubt, dass die #CDU christliche Politik macht, glaubt auch, dass Zitronenfalter Zitronen falten!

@DeanObeidallah Ahhh, the flag of Norway! So nice of Americans to be open to people from other countries.

#cynicism

If you missed the latest Wisdom for Life radio show - focused on Cynic philosophy and its applications - when it aired this weekend, here's the video of the recording session!

https://youtu.be/OCUgJD-xk_I
#Cynicism #WisdomForLife #Philosophy #Video #Radio #Application #Ethics

Here's the last of the Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on the Cynic Epistles (for now). One aspect of their lifestyle was begging, or more literally, "asking" from others. Pseudo-Crates articulates some guidelines for that!

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/cynic-epistles-crates-cynicism-begging-and-accepting
#Podcast #Cynicism #Crates #Begging #Lifestyle #Wealth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTiuH7yl-Iw

🤔

Can we assume that now, replete with the PM's glowing endorsement, #GuardianAustralia is about to change tack & henceforth begin approving new #FossilFool projects, funding the #FossilFool industry, making cruelly parsimonious miniscule adjustments to the entrenched #PovertyPayments of #NewStart, begin kicking peeps off #NDIS, flouting #FoI spirit & letter just like the previous arseholes, promulgating pure bullshit housing policies, yada yada ... all the while bleating constantly but dishonestly that they're "leaving no readers behind"? 🤷‍♀️ 😜

#cynicism #sarcasm #satire #auspol #pessimism #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #WeAreTotallyFscked

Beware of cynicism #shorts #cynicism #positivity #negativity #life

Leaving a steady job at an established institution like #NPR for an unproven venture is a big bet.

It’s a bet that readers still care about the human toll that this war is taking.

It’s a bet against #cynicism, and #ignorance, and #apathy.

Upcoming German/English conference on #VoiceAssistant|s, their linguistic inclusion in everyday #practices, and the e/valuation of connected data practices. #EMCA, #privacy, #Marx, #cynicism – this conference has something for everybody.

Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
University of Siegen, May 8/9, 2023
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/#tagung-sprachassistenten-im-privathaushalt-medien-und-daten-in-interaktion-und-diskurs

@sociology @linguistics