The question is not “am I cynical?”
The question is “am I cynical enough?”
that’s a paraphrase of my favorite question from a movie, substituting “cynical” for the original “paranoid.” Of course, the terms can be used interchangeably in many cases.
Lol! For the first two years I was on FR my tagline was “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you”.
I appreciate that you are among the few that have a relaxed enough take on our current state of affairs and inject a bit of humor (however black or gallows) into the mix.
Unless things change I believe that we are going to be facing some tough, unpleasant choices.