Are you a cynical person?

[Bobby]

I found that the older I got the more cynical I became.
Now I hardly believe a word that anyone says.
I distrust people, the Govt.  used car/motorbike dealers, real estate agents, lawyers, and also employers -
they have all let me down more times than I could count.

Here's a good article on it:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/heal ... index.html


Cynics not only lose out on friendships, love and opportunity — they’re also wrong about human nature

By Jessica DuLong, CNN
8 minute read

Updated 9:49 AM EST, Sat November 9, 2024



Cynicism is on the rise.
Should that come as any surprise given today’s divisive global conflicts and
our fraught political landscape?
Even the weather seems like it’s out to get us.

Americans are experiencing a “trust recession,” social scientist Jamil Zaki said in his new book, “Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness.” Zaki is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab.

The new book "Hope for Cynics" contends that Americans are facing a "trust recession."

The new book "Hope for Cynics" contends that Americans are facing a "trust recession." Grand Central Publishing
Americans’ belief that most people can be trusted dropped from nearly half in 1973 to about one-third in 2018, according to the General Social Survey. But research reveals this mistrust as off base. In fact, people are often better than we expect.

As it turns out, cynics are often all wrong.

Based on a growing science, Zaki calls on people to replace cynicism with “hopeful skepticism” that helps to see the world more clearly and activates them to create a better future by leveraging “the surprising wisdom of hope.”

Cynicism leads to apathy and inaction. But people can counteract it by questioning their assumptions, maintaining faith in others, gossiping about goodness and embracing the hope that drives civic engagement and social progress.

[Jasin]

Im cynical to trolls.

[Bobby]

Im cynical to trolls.

But have you lost trust with most people?

[mellie]

I think as we age, experience different things, we become cynical, wise and lose resilience to people, politicians talking sh1t and peeing in our pockets.

You're OK Bobby, what you're experiencing is perfectly normal, Australians are themselves becoming increasingly cynical at a very young age due to untoward life experiences we kid's didn't have to contend with in our day.

Kid's have much more on their plates these days.

Life in general was so much simpler all those years ago, when all we had to worry about was our homework, choors and being home before the streetlights turned on.

These day's social media has complicated our lives somewhat. Kid's are of no exception, even when they're not actively using social media themselves, they're still enduring the negative consequences of it within their schools, interacting with peers etc.

There's some truth to ignorance being bliss.

As a mature civilised society, we need to adjust to the times and mitigate the undesirable aspects of technology as best we can.

[Jasin]

In ancient old world times.
Life was physically hard and mentally simple.
In modern new world times.
Life is physically easier, but mentally more complicated

[Bobby]

I'm cynical about people on drugs:

1,101,924 views

May 4, 2023

CANBERRA

He was on Meth.

Police chase man going 100km/h on e-scooter after he crashes | Heart-pounding footage shows the moment an Australian man going 100km/h on an e-scooter leads police on a chase from the highway to a bike path where he narrowly avoids cyclists. James Cole, 38, was spotted by police going at high speed along Majura Parkway in Canberra's east on December 23 last year. When two officers on motorbikes try to pull him over, bodycam footage shows Cole refusing to stop and hitting the throttle in an attempt to evade them. The clip, played recently to the ACT Magistrates Court. shows Cole turning off the road and onto a bike path where cyclists dismount to avoid a collision as they hear the engines approaching. When the officers do manage to apprehend Cole after he tumbles off the e-scooter following a nearly five-minute-long chase, he pleads with them that he is late for work.

[Jasin]

The sad thing about this is how the police are now prevented to give the guy a ram or thump him off the scooter, even though he is obviously non-compliance and how people like Mr Scooter know full well they'll get a slap on the wrist at Court. Gaols being full and football stadiums being built, not more gaols.

[Bobby]

The sad thing about this is how the police are now prevented to give the guy a ram or thump him off the scooter, even though he is obviously non-compliance and how people like Mr Scooter know full well they'll get a slap on the wrist at Court. Gaols being full and football stadiums being built, not more gaols.

A cop did push him off that E scooter.
He wasn't hurt.

[Bobby]

I'm cynical about European Govts.
and we are now involved in Ukraine too.

We got involved in WW1 and WW2 in Europe and North Africa.

Seems we haven't learnt our lesson yet.

What did we get for it?
Did any country in Europe especially France give us
a little bit of sovereign European territory -
even 50 square miles? - 5 square miles? - 1 square mile?
No - we got nothing.

We should have been given a piece of land like Monte Carlo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo


We got nothing -

we couldn't even immigrate easily to France or England.

I remember France in the 1980s -
you couldn't get a job there and they made sure of that by forcing employers by law
to pay people directly into a French bank account -
guess what ? - an Australian was not allowed to have a French bank account.
The British were also deporting many Aussies.
European Govts are arseholes.

[Jasin]

We are subject to everyone else. America is subject to themselves.
No-one would fight Australia directly, not even Indonesia.
The world would be subject to fight for us.