[DiogenesLamp]

Cynicism is the appropriate response to virtually anything the Government tells you, and this is likely true going back to the start.

Remember, the Articles of Confederation were supposed to be the governing charter, and then they decide to hold another convention in secret that even broke the rules of the Articles of Confederation.

And of course Diogenes was the father of Cynicism.

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Vidal said something like that, too.

But a thoroughgoing cynicism about everything is another social disease that in the end prevents people from doing anything about corruption. If everybody was always in it for themselves, then you can't blame anybody for being in it for themselves now. Society may present its founders in a glowing light, but that's because it gives us something to aspire to and to live up to now. Without that, we'd be worse, not better.