If Not Cynicism, Then What?
For my cynicism is my way of coping with the b.s. of this world. There’s so much craziness going on that if I don’t put up a cynical front I’ll become overwhelmed. Yet after a while, I end up sounding like a crotchety old grump.
So if not cynicism, then what?
I posed this question (partly in just) on Margaret Feinberg’s blog, and in response she wrote this:
What if instead of thinking, “There’s no way he or she will change!”, we began to pray and hope and love and live for something different? What if instead of concluding, “Why bother?”, we began seeing ourselves as the portal to possibility?
I guess it’s like what we talked about with snarkiness: don’t let it be a lifestyle.
This discussion of cynicism is based on the inherent tension of a rich successful man who just made $40 million dollars as a severance package telling us not to be cynical. Yeah, right. Easy for him to say.
He is a fool and a court jester and made millions of dollars making jokes. Other than Jay Leno, Seinfeld and Letterman, no one else in the history of entertainment has made more money.
So am I saying ‘Be cynical!’ No. I’m saying think about your sources for advice.
Christ is the only one who will not let us down.