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A Response to Booman's "The Four Lethal Cynicisms" | 9 comments (9 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Tips? Recs? (none / 1)

Outrage at my attempt to make some sense of this ongoing bullshit?

Feel free.

I do.

But then...that's because I do not partake of most of the daily feast of delicious emptiness that we laughingly call "our national media".

See ya somewhere.

But not on NPR.

Bet on it.

P.S. I don't eat fast food, either.

Bad for the body; bad for the soul.

As above, so below.

Bet on that as well.

I am.

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Fri Jul 11th, 2008 at 10:21:54 AM EST

Re: Tips? Recs? (none / 0)

Cynicism is not inherently wrong or even bad.

In pop culture, the word cynicism generally describes the opinions of those who see self-interest as the primary motive of human behaviour, and who disincline to rely upon sincerity, human virtue, or altruism as motivations.[2]
On the other hand, the Oxford English Dictionary suggests as the usual modern definition (per cynic): showing "a disposition to disbelieve in the sincerity or goodness of human motives and actions" and a tendency "to express this by sneers and sarcasms".

It isn't a matter of what is true so much as it is a matter of political action in the pursuit of power. You are cynical about people's ability to resist and rise above the hypnomedia. Yet, one of the anecdotes to that is the blogosphere, which provides a 24-hour cycle of bullshit detection. Yet, you want us to pay no attention to the hypnomedia without realizing that that would disable the bullshit detection function.

by BooMan on Fri Jul 11th, 2008 at 02:08:43 PM EST
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Re: Tips? Recs? (4.00 / 2)

What? Are we even speaking the same language?

"Cynicism is not inherently wrong or even bad?"

Merriam Webster
Cynical: captious, peevish.

Sounds pretty negative to me...

In common practice, if someone says "You are being cynical" the reaction is VERY rarely "Oh, thank you so much for the compliment", is it?

C'mon...

P.S. I guess we're not speaking the same language. Although yours is sometimes unintentionally truthful.

Indeed, the blogosphere IS an "anecdote" regarding cynicism. An anecdotal example of the concept at the very least.

Captious? Peevish? The very description of what the leftiness shmoon ran down on Hillary Clinton.

I got yer anecdote.

Right HERE!!!

This what people are seeing now.

Hypnomedia-ed into it by the carload.

You asked for it.

You got it.

Peeve on THAT for a while.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Fri Jul 11th, 2008 at 08:12:14 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Tips? Recs? (none / 0)

"Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West"
Godness had nothing to do with it either.
Keep it up!
Hope all`s well with you.

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.

by KNUCKLEHEAD on Sat Jul 12th, 2008 at 05:12:39 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Nice, WELL REASONED rant ;) (none / 1)

Your point about circuses being cheaper than food or services is a gem.

The media is not going to "get it." The media is going to get WORSE as they have to compensate for physical shortages that will be upsetting the public.

So what strategy as we have must orient to this. The discrepancy itself should open opportunities, little by little.

This means polarization: Individually, people will become MORE zombified until they hit their own, personal wall.

At which point they will move in directions hard to predict. Progressives should be ready then with a narrative that leads people OUT of politics and into something useful. This seems counterintuitive for politicos, but right now ALL politics is at best damage limitation, and you have to have more going on for you than fighting rear-guard, losing battles--if you are going to do a good job of fighting those battles.

by Gaianne on Fri Jul 11th, 2008 at 04:43:53 PM EST
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