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Cynicism is easy. It asks nothing of you or the world. Cynicism delights in despair.
Hope is brave. Hope takes work. Hope makes you take responsibility for doing your part, however small, to steer the world toward where it should be.
Do something brave. Have hope. And then do your part.
> “Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”
—George Carlin
@cerement I used to believe that, and then I met some cynics that really just wanted to bathe in fire.
@fraying Exactly. Hope is action oriented 
https://aeon.co/essays/true-hope-takes-a-hard-look-at-reality-then-makes-a-plan
@fraying
I am still reading these and they still help.
Just wanted to make sure you continue to know that. 
@fraying I still think you can be an active cynic. Most of the people I know feels powerless against a meat grinder, but doing nothing feels like a worse option than putting a fight ("it may have amounted to nothing but I tried my best shot").
I still think despair bathed in cynicism is still a good motive. Optimism is good if you can honestly be into that - but I'm very very wary of the positive thinking trend.
Sometimes every option is shitty, and you don't need hope to do something about it
@fraying ...but I also agree that cynisme is a very "I'm over my emotion" stance that most men will be attracted to because it allows to look smart and strong.
I was a fan of the biggest cynics before meeting any really fucked up situation (george carlin is a great example : to any any teen it's the embodiment of coolness).
So there is that too. And it can totally be toxic - as toxic as forced positivisme I think >_<
The crux is less the mindset than what you actually do about it in the end.
@otyugh I think we took different paths but we got to the same place. 
criticism is a hard and active work of mind. it takes knowledge, analisys and critical thinking. it's scientifical method.
hope is a blind confidence in something. it does not need any mental efforts, any knowledge and it has not any real basis. that's religious bs and it's delusional.
@iron_bug Oh fuck off.
though, I've never expected anything else from religious morons. they have never had any explanations. idiocy is always like that: if someone disagrees morons get agressive and that's all. they're incapable to discussion or arguing.
@iron_bug @fraying Cynicism and criticism are not always the same thing :)
Cynicism is often blind, of "this shit doesn't lead to immediate benefit so it is doomed to fail, why bother" variety. It is easy indeed but it doesn't help anyone or anything.
Constructive criticism usually preceded with hope. If you don't believe something can be good you won't bother looking into it and trying to see flaws and if it is possible to avoid them and make it better. It usually requires someone not to be cynical because why spend your mental resources if you don't care? Cynics don't do that.
and critical thinking imminently leads to cynicism. I misread the word, I admit. but cynicism is the direct consequence of active thinking and analysis of facts. it comes from knowledge.