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[ Anatomy Of The Cynic ] [ By The GNN ]
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ANATOMY OF THE CYNIC
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by THE GNN/DCS/uXu
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My friend, The Cynic, would not like to be called a cynic; not because he is
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afraid of the truth, but because he seriously do not think the concept is
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applicable to him. He likes to think of himself as The Truth Sayer or The
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Man With Open Eyes. He wants to be a big man, an ethical scientist - someone
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who knows what is truly right and what is wrong, as opposed to the common
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man who aimlessly wanders around in the world without a clue of what is
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truly Good and Bad. He want to search and destroy public and secret chambers
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of mumbo-jumbo; he want to smash down doors and surprise those people who
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thought they knew anything about morality, shoot them with arguments and
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leave them dead on the floor.
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Armed with the stiff face he believes to be appropriate for the man of
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'reason' and 'rationality', my friend, The Cynic, desires to reform the
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world. The entire world.
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But mere desire is all he got. He has never tried to change the world.
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His attempts are limited to his friends and circle of aquantances, to whom
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he always explain what a rotten place the world is. He can point out lots of
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things that are wrong, yet not many that are good.
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The Cynic has accepted a very simple way of knowing what is right and
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wrong. There is something that is The Good, says The Cynic, and those things
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which contribute to that Good are Right things. Those that do not are Wrong
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things.
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Formally speaking, that sounds very convincing. But mere formality is
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totally empty. It must be filled with something. Here The Cynic fails.
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He does not know how to contribute to The Good. But then, he says, no one
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else knows either; because we are all stupid and ignorant and crazy and
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egoistical and worthless and uneducated and ugly. But a few minutes later,
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The Cynic has forgotten all of that. He does not remember that he just said
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that no one, including himself, knows how to increase the net balance of
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Good over Bad in the world. All of a sudden The Cynic informs everyone what
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is Right and what is Wrong.
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The Cynic attempts to convince everyone around him that he views the
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world from The objective point of view (which means that everyone else that
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do not see all there is from his personal angle are mistaken, blind of the
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facts). Therefore there is really no point in having a discussion with The
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Cynic. A discussion is meant to lead somewhere, to be a sharing of opinions
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and arguments which eventually may lead to a mutual understanding and
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increased knowledge of oneself and others. But since The Cynic belives that
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his own point of view is the only correct one, he never bothers to listen to
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what people try to say. He hear the words they are using, but he never
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cares to understand their meaning.
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He belives his mission to be to reform the world, but not himself.
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His bombastic way of talking give some people the false impression that
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he actually have something interesting and important to say. These are
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people who are low on self-confidence, who want someone to tell them what
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to think and do. They do not understand that The Cynic is equally confused
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as they are, but that he hides his troubles of understanding a complex world
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behind a veil of simplicity. The Cynic offers them what the long for:
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solutions. But his solutions are always very simple. And always destructive.
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"Just destroy it!"
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"Just forbid it!"
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"Just stop it!"
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"Just change it!"
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... and so on. Not many believes that The Cynic really knows what to do.
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Yet some admires him simply for his "firm beliefs". But of course, his
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"firm" beliefs are not so firm. If The Cynic meets someone he admires, and
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that person tells him that he is wrong, he changes opionion. At once. He
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can change his mind in the middle of a sentence. He do not make a choice to
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do so. He just does it. You see, the last thing The Cynic want to do is to
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annoy those he admires. Those whom The Cynic admires might actually have
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something to say. But The Cynic himself has nothing more to say but to
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repeat what those people say. He thinks that he is thinking for himself if
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he copies the opinions and behaviour of people he admire.
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My friend, The Cynic, enjoys to talk about his personal anxiety. He does
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it whenever he get the chance. His cronic pain is due to all evil there is
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in the world, he says. Yet he can (without realizing the obvious paradox)
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feed his retina with all the misery there actually is in the world - wars,
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starvation, injustice - and at the same time whine about his personal
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problems, which usually are limited to hangovers and sprained wrists.
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The Cynic despise happy people that he do not know. He thinks that they
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are stupid. "How can anyone be happy in this world?" The Cynic asks the
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people around him. If someone reply that it is possible, they somehow
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indirectly claim that they accept all what is evil in the world according to
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The Cynic.
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The Cynic himself can actually be happy sometimes. If he has bought
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some product which he likes, he is actually happy. If someone else, which
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he does not know, does the same thing, they are "slaves of the capital".
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The Cynic believes he knows what people are like. He can tell you what a
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two-year old thinks, even though he has never spent any time with children.
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He know what all people think, no matter their background, culture or
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gender. But the strangest thing is that he only knows that they are all
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unpleased with life. All of them. All of us.
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My friend, The Cynic has not understood that cynicism is merely the
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intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. He will never reform the
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world in any positive way. He will never be able to search and destroy the
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chambers of mumbo-jumbo. Not because he sits in such a chamber himself, but
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because he his a nobody, nowhere. The only thing he may do to the world, and
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I sincerely hope he will not succeed, is to destroy it with his poison - a
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poison which becomes deadlier for every day that passes, and which has not
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been forced on to him by the world, but by himself alone.
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But The Cynic would not like to think of his attitude as a poison. He
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wants to think of it as "an enlightening point of view". What he does not
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comprehend is that the bad parts of our world that he want to reform has
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been created and is upheld by the same kind of poison his mind creates and
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is addicted to.
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