Violent Revolution Is The Only Way

Are you sure you don’t mean something like “nihilist”… I mean, this blog is pretty cynical most of the time, but not contemptuous of everything that is human.

seriously — the levels of denial here are astounding

tut tutting at steve is part of that denial

there are millions of people who are much, much more cynical than steve… they just can’t stand hanging out at blogs like this during the holocene extinction

i’d have posted 4 links but can’t with this interface

please, please……. do something to educate, inform, or share resources with your community and SOOON pondering the usefulness of cynicism won’t make our media (and what is media anyway?) any less SOLD OUT

make what ever mediums you have at your disposal not SOLD OUT

this whole post is about how the major media is SOLD OUT

that’s at least a 5 year old story

but any way it’s not about how we’re totally victim to that while the world holds it’s breath for us all important American voters to arrive at a decision to vote for the less sold out candidate or not vote at all… there’s a lot more we can do

even if we have kids, jobs, and even serious technological addictions

millions of people are much more cynical than steve

how cynical do you think people in Baghdad are?

we’re in big trouble

tut tutting at steve or at our sold out press as we still passivly consume it like nursing home fair won’t help

Point.

And thank you, Smiling Mortician!

cyn·i·cal adj.

1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others.
2. Selfishly or callously calculating.
3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness: a cynical view of the average voter’s intelligence.
4. Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity.
American Heritage Dictionary

My guess? Lawnguylander’s thinking more about definition #2 while Atheist is into #1 and #3. We all, of course, engage in #4 as often as possible.

Fermat’s Lastest Theorem!

Credit where credit’s due. Anyone could write a blog-post that over-rated the influence of media commentators and assumed that the collective opinions of the pundits would automatically become the opinions of the ignorant masses, slipping into their simple impressionable minds through a process of osmosis. And again, anyone could write in a tone of smug self-congratulation about how successfully they managed to slap negative labels onto the candidates of one side in an election.
But doing both at once is more difficult. You try, if you think it’s so easy.

Jake Tapper is a cynic. So is Maureen Dowd. Shoot me if I ever become one. I’d characterize most of the commenters here as frustrated as fuck and and skeptical as shit but still idealistic. There’s no such thing as an idealistic cynic.

Wow, I could not disagree with you more Lawnguylander. I have always considered myself a cynic, and don’t consider it to be a negative thing.

As far as I am concerned, being a cynic means that you realize:

-The world doesn’t care about you.
-Civilizations, moralities, and belief structures can all fail.
-”Good Will” is just “Bad Will”- with a better agent and nicer clothes.
-There’s an unavoidable madness permeating human culture.

That’s being a cynic, as far as I am concerned. People who have this sensibility can do positive or negative things. We aren’t all toadies or shysters or tools.

Not that I’m mad, you should just realize that some people define ‘cynic’ differently.

Mine!

That was, uh, WordPress …

Hopefully, you’ll notice that they stuck around to fight the fascists.

I forgot about that. Timely reminder – thanks.

Look, if I had anything to crow about I’d be Osmondmandias or Scott Baiowulf.

Are you sure you know what it means to be a cynic? That word gets misused around here quite a bit. Jake Tapper is a cynic. So is Maureen Dowd. Shoot me if I ever become one. I’d characterize most of the commenters here as frustrated as fuck and and skeptical as shit but still idealistic. There’s no such thing as an idealistic cynic. Steve E. is sounding pretty cynical here but hopefully he doesn’t really mean all that he’s saying and he’s going to get the hugs he needs to snap out of it.

Or maybe just some attention will do the trick. If you haven’t noticed, Steve most comments here go unremarked upon. Even a lot of really funny ones so don’t take it personally.

Mine!

Fucking WordPress is a black hole today.

Disabling the MCA, or American Enabling Act, would go a long way toward halting this precipitous decline toward fascism.

Reestablishing the authority of Congress is the only thing that can brake this train–only they can save themselves from what they’ve already done.

Relying on the the new president or Johnny and the Supremes to end our pain seems ridiculous.

Remember that Hitler could never have acquired the powers he did without the consent of the judiciary, most notably Roland Freisler and Wilhelm Stuckart.

It’s way easier to corrupt 10 people than 535.

OK, I HAVE A HEADACHE NOW AND WILL TURN MU CAPS LOCK OFF.

fucking wordpress comment eater…